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Taft turned out to be a liberal, and a dogged, gutsy campaigner to boot. He saw "human relations" as the city's number one problem and poured out a spate of specific ideas while Stokes tended to generalize. "We don't need more plans in this city," Stokes declared at one point. "What we need is action." Actually, he was already on record with his own specifics. To an all-white meeting of policemen, Stokes declared his intention of firing Police Chief Richard Wagner as his first order of business. To a Negro club he promised...
...during the present war. For by raising the spectre of another Munich, the Administration is trying to divert attention to a foreign problem--Communism--that has really lost much of its relevance to the welfare of this nation in 1967. Unfortunately, most citizens, however shaken by the summer's spate of race riots, are far more emotional over international problems than the United States' domestic tranquility...
...Remedies. In the recent spate of teacher walkouts across the country, injunctions have had little effect. Earlier this month, police and firemen on strike in Youngstown, Ohio, ignored an injunction to go back to work. In order to get around the legal ban against public-employee strikes, the unions have labeled their walkouts "mass resignations" and "professional study days." The courts have issued injunctions anyway, but the unions block the injunctions with appeals and indifference. They are rarely punished, the reason being that as part of the eventual settlement the unions obtain a promise that the government will help bury...
...Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare...
...solve the problem by moving into old industrial lofts. But living there often meant breaking the city's fire and non-occupancy laws or entailed the double cost of maintaining separate living and studio quarters. And with urban renewal, even lofts are becoming a rarity. Last week a spate of new projects, all aimed at alleviating their housing problem, convinced artists that their pleas for help might at last be beginning to register...