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...create a semi-independent agency to govern urban renewal. The Housing Act's original intent was the lofty goal of a "decent, safe, and sanitary" housing for all Americans. The 1949 Council endorsed the Act, foreseeing the opportunity "for Cambridge to replace large parts of its substandard housing with modern planned neighborhoods...
...extent of the poverty problem was first brought to public attention in 1971, much to the government's embarrassment. A small group of young North African Jews organized street demonstrations to dramatize the substandard housing in which one-third of the nation's people were living. Calling themselves "Black Panthers," they complained that the Oriental Jews, who had lived in Israel for years, were as deserving of good housing as brand-new immigrants from the Soviet Union...
...present, the men were ordered not to discuss their lives in captivity, at least not until all the prisoners are released. A reasonably clear general picture about the life of prisoners in the North had already emerged: captives there were held in camps, sustained by regular though substandard diets and permitted to keep themselves physically fit. It was a hard but organized life. "During some of our darkest days," Capt. Denton recalled, "we tried to cheer one another by emitting a signal, the soft whistling of the song California, Here I Come. We usually knew we were whistling...
...practice, however, the computer phone banks have blown a few fuses. For one thing, there is no telling how intrusive or untimely a call might be. For another, the computer's cross sections can get crossed up, misdirecting messages, say, about substandard housing to wealthy WASPs or promising new employment opportunities to retired senior citizens. That kind of cross-up happened to the statewide computerized campaign of one candidate in the Florida primary. No machine recorded the reaction on the other end of the line, but the possibilities are several...
...conditions that produced the rumbles of the 1950s have, if anything, worsened. The population density of the Southeast Bronx-500,000 people crammed into 5 sq. mi.-is among the nation's highest. Housing, health care, employment and education are woefully substandard. Fifty percent of the children under six have never been immunized against polio. Forty percent of the area's families are on welfare. More than 10% of residents between 15 and 44 are heroin addicts. Says one of Mayor John Lindsay's minority specialists: "The Puerto Rican experience in New York has been a total...