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...word, if the NLF continues to make it difficult for the United States to commit genocide on the people of South Vietnam, Nixon will respond by committing it on the North...
...CLAO staff has thus far been able to avoid committing itself to any set proportion of individual cases and law reform work, due to CLAO's generous financial and personnel resources. However, if the CLAO caseload continues to grow or the resources are cut back, the staff may have to commit itself increasingly to one of the two alternatives...
Politically, Reds and Dino are pragmatically nonviolent. "The Panthers want a revolutionary war," says Dino, "but that ain't hip. The white man got over the black man by politics, and that's the only way we'll get back at them. Why commit suicide?" But the black-pride movement has given them and many other young blacks an assertive sense of their own worth. "If I walked into a building with white people three years ago," says Dino, "I hung my head down. No more! Now people sense that and don't mess with...
Detroit is a city of black crime and white fear-a paradigm of the urban tragedy in America. Blacks, who make up almost 40% of the population, commit 85% of all reported crimes, which jumped 14% last year. Almost every white claims to know someone who has been mugged or robbed by young black thugs; karate and gun clubs thrive in the white suburbs. White commuters call the city "Indian country," never argue with black motorists and avoid walking downtown except in broad daylight. During the Christmas shopping season, police loudspeakers warned: "Walk in twos after dark, keep your hands...
...inmates are black, but all 13 prison wardens are white. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Blacks are arrested between three and four times more often than whites, partly because police stop and search blacks far more frequently than they do whites. This is only partly rooted in race prejudice: blacks probably commit more violent crime than whites-partly because the black population has a far higher ratio of the youths who mainly commit such crimes. Most of the victims of black crime are black. Example: black women are 18 times more likely to be raped than white women, and usually by black...