Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morial, a black liberal Democr at elected last fall, with 52 per cent of his city's vote, will take office May 1. Until then Morial will teach a seminar at the Institute called "Urban Policy and Intergovernmental Relations: A Mayor's Dilemma...
...there are important differences over particulars. Conservatives are worried about the budget's inflationary impact and would have preferred a smaller deficit than the $61 billion now estimated. Liberals, on the other hand, feel betrayed by Carter's refusal to allocate greater resources to fighting joblessness and urban ills and for public health. They note that Carter, who ran on a platform of reducing defense outlays, submitted a military budget calling for a 3% increase in spending, discounted for inflation, to $117.8 billion. Liberals are vowing to get a larger share of the pie for social welfare programs...
...tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into The Lady from Boston...
...hire the hard-to-employ. Still, the G.O.P. has a long way to go. Among ordinary blacks, says Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, disappointment with Jimmy Carter is "not enough to even make a dent." Adds James Compton, the head of Chicago's Urban League: "I don't see any philosophic approach in the Republican Party that will attract large numbers of black votes...
...small Boston house one hot night last summer when a convicted burglar burst through the back door and demanded money. The intruder, 6 ft. 4 in. and 220 lbs., viciously beat the two women before fleeing. Police captured him a short time later. Thanks to clogged conditions in many urban courts, suspects in felony cases often relax on the street for a year or more and eventually extract a light, plea-bargained sentence from beleaguered prosecutors. But only 61 days after the Boston assault, the intruder had been tried, convicted of five felonies and sent off to the maximum-security...