Word: newark
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...month, New York Air, a new subsidiary of Texas International, will start providing 18 flights a day along the New York City to Washington, D.C., corridor in direct competition with the busy Eastern Air Lines shuttle. And People Express next year will begin service to six cities out of Newark...
Koch's success story is classically New York. His parents were immigrant Jews from Poland. During the Depression, Koch's father lost his fur business in The Bronx and moved his wife and three children to Newark to share a two-bedroom apartment with four other relatives. Ed, 12, helped support the family with tips he earned by operating a hat-check concession in a catering hall...
...Newark, July 1967. Violence exploded when blacks heard and believed a false rumor that the police had killed a black taxi driver. As the rioting spread, exaggerated reports of black snipers prompted the intervention of the National Guard. In six days of rioting, 26 were killed, 1,500 injured, and damage reached $30 million...
...America's cities when the rioting suddenly stopped. One reason was a series of reforms: more political power for blacks, police review boards, a variety of job programs. Another was the realization that ghetto blacks were the chief victims of ghetto violence-burned-out areas of Detroit and Newark are still in ruins today. But as Miami demonstrated, the elements that created the history of ghetto rioting still exist...
...country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace. Riotous prison disorders have become so common that it was only second-rate news last March when a guard was wounded and several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon after the epic mayhem that took 33 lives in February at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe. That was a hard act to follow. But such is the condition of prisons, overcrowded and festering everywhere...