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Trouble began when the Pope visited the slum district of Sant' Elia on the fringes of Cagliari to demonstrate his concern for the struggling poor of Sardinia. While he was accepting gifts of fish and lobster and speaking to a crowd of 4,000 slumdwellers, a group of 20 anarchists held a protest near by. They called Paul an Antichrist, and insisted that Sant' Elia needed toilets and pharmacies more than papal visits. Police moved in to end the demonstration, and a fight broke out; 26 people were injured and 21 arrested before it was stopped. Some stones...
Bond: I tend to be pessimistic. While income for blacks has been increasing, it has not been increasing apace with income for whites. The gap is getting wider. I think that's going to continue. The physical aspects of poverty may be eliminated in the next several decades. Slum housing may disappear. Then people will find it easier to ignore poverty because it won't be an eyesore...
BLACK Americans pay more than whites for comparable housing, and are four times more likely to live in substandard housing. In black slums, housing density (3,071 units per sq. mi.) is almost double that of middle-class urban areas, and 100 times greater than in suburbs. The density helps spark ghetto fires; in Brooklyn's East New York area, for instance, fire alarms are increasing an average 44% a year. Density also defeats garbage disposal, litters streets with junked cars (1,437 in Detroit's Fifth Precinct in the first five months of 1969). Of all black...
...second treatment of a common ear infection; to make the first visit, she had to take her five children on two different buses to a distant clinic, where she waited all day for a doctor to see the boy. A woman who lives in a rat-infested slum says that rats are no problem: she means that she has seen no more rats than usual that...
...again succumbed to his weakness for the tantalizing phrase, citing the "murderous slum population" as contributing to racial tensions. That kind of talk naturally invites debate. A black activist in St. Louis dismissed Moynihan as an "ivory-tower specialist who never asked blacks about themselves and then used his Ph.D. as an indication of his authority in the academic world." Warner S. Saunders, who works with black youths in Chicago, scoffed at Moynihan as "Nixon's straw boss-the deputy in charge of the colored." The New York Times contended that Moynihan's logic is "a sophisticated rationale...