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...years, no one said anything. "Everyone knew who was involved," says Charles Robertson, two-time mayor of the hard-knock river town of York, Pa. "But everyone just thought it was even. One black had been killed and one white--even." He was reflecting on the week of July 1969 that turned neighbor against neighbor, blacks against whites. By the time it ended, part of York lay in smoldering ruins and National Guard tanks patrolled the streets. "But everyone thought it was even." And for nearly the rest of the century the carnage remained an open, unpursued secret: no accounting...
...Robertson, 67, was a cop back in 1969. Last week, two days before he was arrested, he had just won a heated Democratic mayoral primary against a black challenger. He presented himself to police on Thursday (and is now out on $50,000 bail), yet he has refused to step down. He may once have been a racist, he says, but he is innocent of murder...
...affidavit says that during the race riots, Robertson provoked trouble by addressing a rally and yelling "White power!" Then, the affidavit continues, he provided ammunition to a gang known as the Newberry Street Boys and told them, "If I weren't a cop, I would be leading commando raids against n______ in the black neighborhoods." The ammunition that Robertson allegedly handed out was used on the night of July 21, 1969, when a car carrying a black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd...
...Robertson says he arrived on the scene with an armored car to heroically stop the shooting, telling the four surviving passengers to drive away. "I saved their lives," he told TIME. "I looked down at Allen, and she was just shredded...
...Definitely. In fact the West has probably played an important role in brokering the agreement, and making it clear that there is no politically acceptable alternative. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson this week issued the harshest condemnation by a Western official of the National Liberation Army (the Albanian separatist guerrilla group), calling them criminals and thugs. On the other hand, he also leaned heavily on the government to avoid declaring a state of war, which could inflame the conflict. The West has clearly been raising the pressure on the NLA in Kosovo, too, which remains the key logistical support base...