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...early in September. Of the nation's 51 largest cities, only 15 have a student population that is more than 50% black and Spanish-speaking. The major skepticism about busing involves big cities whose racial makeup allows no possibility of balance. Washington, D.C.'s schools are now 95% black, Newark's 72%, and Detroit's 64%. For years, black and white educators have written integration off as a realistic option for these communities. Now, though. Judge Roth's insistence on an integration plan for the Detroit metropolitan area raises the possibility that other areas may be forced to consider...
...authorities, and what Attica will mean for the future of prison reform. Our coverage was supervised by New York Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, and the reporting from Attica was done by a trio of correspondents. James Willwerth went to the prison when the uprising started. Having covered the Newark riots, been gassed at the 1968 Chicago disorders and spent a year in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic tragedy. Those of us waiting outside finally realized that it would end only with the counting...
...shrouded by secrecy, rumor, half-truths and untruths, the nation was sorely split in trying to decide just why it happened and who was to blame. Since most of Attica's prisoners are black, many blacks saw the event as yet another manifestation of America's deep-rooted racism. Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson termed it "one of the most callous and blatantly repressive acts ever carried out by a supposedly civilized society." White liberals ?and not liberals alone?interpreted Attica as, at the very least, a measure of the bankruptcy of the U.S. prison system. Yet many...
Printers at the Richmond papers have been on strike since March, and a Newspaper Guild strike has shut down the Evening News in Newark since May. Donnahoe is determined not to give in to union demands. He has written several editorials praising nonstriking employees in Richmond for their "heroic publishing effort," and attacking "the overwhelming power of organized labor in this country" and "union tyranny." He kept the papers going by teaching other employees to set type. In the early days of the Richmond strike, he even pressed his wife into service as a tape puncher, and Chairman Bryan pitched...
...Newark situation is stalemated in bitterness. One Guild official has called Donnahoe a "carpetbagger out of the South," and the Guild claims that he is stalling on negotiations. Donnahoe reportedly would rather sell the paper than settle on the Guild's terms...