Word: rioting
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...September, the young people of the neighborhood assured action by state and city officials. On September 5, 150 youths, organized into rival black and white gangs, battled police for two hours, leaving six wounded. The rioting drew heavy press coverage, and collected a gaggle of officials. At the riot scene, Thomas Atkins, Secretary of the State Department of Communities and Development, met City Manager John Corcoran, and decided to call a meeting of city and state officials at Corcoran's suggestion...
...meanwhile, the Towers remains a dumping grounds for people the bureaucrats find too hard to handle any other way. When the tenants are quiet, they are ignored. When they protest, the official response is automatic and incomplete. One resident summed it up: "We had a riot and the doors were painted. Next week we'll have another and they'll paint the halls." But for the bureaucrats and for each contestant in the small battles with poverty which rage throughout Cambridge, the lesson is clear: paint cannot hide the failures of Roosevelt Towers...
...because of faulty distribution facilities, there were shortages of everything from cooking oil to the tomatoes that Egyptians love. Corruption was rampant, protests increased, and repression followed. When university students demonstrated in the spring to criticize their lack of job futures, they were hauled off to jail by tough riot police...
...Marine recruiter revisited the campus May 2. Although the leadership of a university sought "an alternative to...police intervention," B.U.'s administration, in anticipation of trouble, asked for tactical police in full riot gear to await the demonstrators...
...described the riot-torn Newark as a cordoned-off no-man's land. "I happened, unfortunately, to have been there," he added...