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Take Boston's race-relations quandary Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has a special task force with special administrators. He appears on late-night T.V. spots in a playground with an ethnic potpourri of children, speaking of "eracism" in English and Spanish. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn meets with Dukakis and the new Archbishop Bernard F. Law '53 in a highly publicized conference on bringing the city together. The Boston Covenant, formed after a Black student was shot on a Charlestown football field, and the Citywide Parents Council all continue to flail away at the invisible enemy...
...Flynn pays nearly a million dollars to the widow of a Black man shot by police in 1975. And he personally chips in to make sure the first Blacks to move into an all white Charlestown housing project are not harmed...
Smith and Flynn first met at the Graduate School of Education nearly five years ago, when Flynn was studying for a masters defence and their friendship has grown since that time. "I know the Mayor has the highest regard for him," Deputy Press Secretary to the Mayor Bob C. Fennerin said. He added that Flynn chose Smith for his "expertise at long-range planning and administrative planning abilities...
Smith said he will coordinate efforts between the Flynn administration and the K-School's Business and Government Center to make Boston "a national model of government streamlining" and eventually to reduce city expenses through a better business-government partnership...
...There's something in it for the school" as well. Smith added, saying that K-School students will gain better access to summer jobs and internships with the Flynn administration than they had under Mayor Kevin H. White...