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...North. Of its 10,500 residents, 61% belong to families that earn less than $3,000 a year. Alarmed by the report of one of his black appointees, who described the area as "potentially explosive," Mayor Moon Landrieu was scheduled to make a tour of it last week. The slum erupted before he got there...
...Call the yellow pad Imagination. In Williams' art, as in his life, they jostled and rubbed against each other-equally powerful in their imperatives. His life was one long attempt to reconcile the two by converting the smog of New Jersey factory chimneys and the smudged drabness of slum lives into the stuff of grittily passionate...
...with the strain. In all major cities, the sewage systems, garbage collection, telephones and electrical facilities are overtaxed to the point of collapse. Saigon's bankrupt bus system stopped operating last year. Danang lacks sewers and garbage disposal; its water supply is contaminated. All the cities have vast slum areas. Adequate housing remains critically short, especially in Saigon and Hue, which suffered heavily in the Communists' 1968 Tet offensive against the cities. Medical care lags far behind demand...
...cities in the design for an ultimate victory. As one Viet Cong directive puts it, "The urban front is an important strategic area." Taking issue with the more optimistic Huntington view, SCAG Director Hatcher James says: "If things get bad, the Communist organizers will be in the slum neighborhoods, promising the sky. We've got to improve conditions before that time comes." But South Viet Nam's cities are already developing many of the same fateful characteristics that have caused despair and urban terrorism in other parts of the world...
...MERCHANTS in the Square really want to deal with problems of Cambridge becoming a slum, they cannot let their fear and anger cut them off from potential solutions. By treating street people as if they had no rights whatever-in other words, in treating them the way most businessmen treat slum-dwellers-they reinforce the image of the Square they wish to disspell. Moreover, further repression of an already militant group can only ensure continuing riots. And if the merchants feel that filling the Square with police is really the way back to the quaint comfortable Harvard Square that they...