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...Boston's A. Reginald Eaves, head of the mayor's human rights office: "When the black kids find they can't get a piece of the pie, they're going to get a piece of the action. That means trouble." As Americans learned during the riots of the 1960s, however, ghetto violence explodes by a wholly unpredictable chemistry. The arrest of a cab driver was enough to trigger the 1967 riot in Newark. In New York last week, four policemen were gunned down-two of them fatally shot in the back, the other two critically wounded...
...many larger cities police community-relations programs and more sophisticated riot-control methods have helped ease trouble. Police have learned to avoid provocative confrontations; now they slip into the ghetto quietly instead of barging in with sirens wailing. If trouble does come, the cops tend to use tear gas instead of bullets...
...frustration of the ghettos is as deep or deeper now than it was at the height of the riot season several years ago. Some explosions seem almost certain. Perhaps they will not be on the scale of Watts or Newark, but they may well be the nastiest since...
...eventually need new leaders, however, since Rennie Davis and John Froines, both members of the Chicago Seven, were arrested last week and charged with conspiring to deprive individuals of their civil rights. A third Chicago defendant, Abbie Hoffman, was charged with crossing state lines to incite a riot...
Benumbing News. This process energized Warhol's images of disaster-the car crashes, the electric chairs, the mushroom clouds and paintings like Red Race Riot, 1963-with singular force. A distillation had been made of the benumbing repetition of bad news in order to show that one should not be numbed. Characteristically, Warhol denied any such slant. Neither approval nor disapproval: the news photographs that produced these silk screens, he claimed, "just happened to be lying around," and he did not pick them. But why were they lying around? For all his elaborations of cool, Warhol has an apocalyptic...