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...first night's unrest started with a scuffle in front of a Dixie Hills supermarket between a Negro security guard and a Negro youth with a can of beer; the second night's with the arrest of Black Power Leader Stokely Carmichael, 26, and four companions, for disregarding police orders to leave the area. Undaunted, Carmichael returned the next night to demonstrate his peculiar flair for inflammable oratory...
...years ago, German students were determined bookworms, so politically passive that many intellectuals wondered if there was much hope for democracy in a country that must look to such detached youths for its future leaders. The intellectuals are wondering no more. Instead, some are busily trying to dampen the unrest, which they regard as evidence of a West German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they met in Bonn for more than six hours with student leaders...
Because the situation in Roxbury is fundamentally agitated and anarchic, the outlook for the rest of the summer is a troubled one. Certainly, the agencies will continue to meet with each other and the city to find solutions and decrease unrest. The city in turn will have to increase its efforts to satisfy the needs of the Negro community, probably beginning with a review of police practices. There will be an attempt on both sides to redirect interest towards the substantive issues, and a growing interest among Negroes in developing the community as white store owners are residents move...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
Throughout the South, the quiet campuses of Negro colleges are smoldering with the unrest and resentments of an unquiet generation. One night last week, Houston's Texas Southern University, which is 95% Negro, erupted into a campus-style Watts. By morning, 488 students were arrested, one student and two policemen were wounded and a rookie cop was dead...