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...Associated Press-NBC News poll taken after the Miami riot found that 53% of Americans fear that there will be more racial riots in other cities this summer. At the same time, 84% of the whites thought blacks were better off now than ten years ago. But they are wrong, and that is precisely the point; it is the key factor underlying the growing frustration in the ghetto. Despite the programs that raised so much hope, despite the brave talk by politicians about rescuing the cities, despite the thousands of success stories that seem to prove the contrary, urban blacks...
...wake of the Miami riots, Joseph Boyce, TIME's Atlanta bureau chief and a black who was once a Chicago police officer, reported on the status of blacks in his city and elsewhere in the South. Said Boyce: "Blacks are like artifacts in a room seldom used. They are dusted off periodically for a look, especially after a riot, then replaced in the cabinet. The doors close again until the next time...
...some of the 19,000 Cuban refugees from Castro awaiting relocation in the U.S. A force of 500 Cubans marched out through the front gate before being rounded up by harassed soldiers and police. That night 200 Cubans tried to storm the gates. Repelled, they staged a full-scale riot and set mess halls and supply rooms ablaze. Police and soldiers broke up the rampage with tear gas, but small mobs roamed the base starting more fires and demanding freedom...
...resettlement after concluding that they were not criminals. Simultaneously, the U.S. Catholic Conference, one of the main private agencies involved in the operation, had compiled a list of 4,735 people who had homes awaiting them. But the two lists did not match. Not until last week, after the riot, did federal and private authorities begin to work together more effectively. In all, some 57,000 Cubans have been resettled from the camps, but officials anticipate that it will take months to process the remaining ones...
Last week, Carter ordered the Justice Department to try to send back to Cuba those who have serious criminal records or have violated U.S. law. Carter's order may well affect the 125 Cubans who led the riot; at week's end 60 of them were being transferred to a detention center in El Paso for trial in a federal court. To keep order in the Fort Chaffee camp, Carter tripled the federal troops to 2,000. But White House Press Secretary Jody Powell took care to note that "the vast majority" were not involved in the violence...