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...keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, refrom-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...record fist-waving parents as they shouted "Never, never, never" along South Boston's streets. Over 900 citizens, mostly white and anti-busing, rode the paddy wagons to the local jails in the first two years after the court order took shape. Over 400 were prosecuted. And, as Commissioner DiGrazia so unproudly points out, none received sentences from mostly neighborhood courts. This show of laxness and reactionary unity in the city's neighborhoods, along with the angry words and deeds that it compounded, turned Boston into an object of fascination and irony as media and communities, both North and South...
...suit, filed last Thursday by members of the Committee Against Racism (CAR) and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP); named as defendants Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, Boston Mayor Kevin White, Boston Police Commissioner Robert DiGrazia and seven members of Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR...
...first session featured gun control advocates such as Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. diGrazia, Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, Boston City Councilman Lawrence diCara '71, representatives from private organizations, and several clergymen...