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Divorced. By Jerome P. Cavanagh, 40, Detroit's personally controversial but politically effective mayor since 1962: Mary Helen Cavanagh, 38, onetime beauty queen; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, eight children; in Detroit. Mrs. Cavanagh charged the mayor with drunkenness, and punching her in the stomach while she was pregnant; he said she conspired with his political enemies and used "mule-skinners' language" in front of the children. The judge gave Cavanagh custody of four of the brood. Mrs. Cavanagh says she will appeal, charging that the judge knuckled under to "political pressure...
...seven-month shutdown of its two daily newspapers had given Detroit the longest newspaper blackout of any ma jor city in U.S. history. Efforts by Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, Governor George Romney and Mediator Nathan Feinsinger to end the strike had been rebuffed; the Free Press and the News stayed shut and the situation was be coming desperate. So the News let it be known that it was thinking of publishing without the benefit of unions...
...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
...punks, outsiders and Communists rather than on white racism and other injustices." Another group of city officials, said Dr. Spiegel, act as if they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh is mayor, suffered the nation's most destructive riots last summer despite a race-relations program considered effective by the city's government. "We are more willing to settle for violence than to change the social attitudes underlying it," says Spiegel, "just as many people...
...Cavanagh was referring to rumors that had armed Negroes invading the white suburbs and armed white snipers riding through the Negro ghettos. Because of such rumors, both Negroes and whites are starting to arm themselves. The mayor and others thought that the News and the Free Press could have helped quiet such wild talk. As it is, the city no longer even has its three interim papers...