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...have great confidence in the polygraph. If this machine says a man lied, he lied." So said Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo shortly before submitting to a lie-detector test. Rizzo was being tested along with Peter J. Camiel, city Democratic Party chairman, who accused Rizzo of trying to bribe him in his choice of a Democratic candidate for district attorney. The mayor lied on six of the ten questions, said the lie detector, while Camiel told the truth on all. After the test, Rizzo proclaimed his innocence, reaffirmed his confidence in the polygraph-then demanded...
...have great confidence in the polygraph. If this machine says a man lied, he lied." So said Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo shortly before submitting to a lie-detector test. Rizzo was being tested along with Peter...
Camiel, city Democratic Party chairman, who accused Rizzo of trying to bribe him in his choice of a Democratic candidate for district attorney. The mayor lied on six of the ten questions, said the lie detector, while Camiel told the truth on all. After the test, Rizzo proclaimed his innocence, reaffirmed his confidence in the polygraph-then demanded a re-evaluation of the results by his own experts. Flattery, it seemed, got Rizzo nowhere with the machine...
...meetings, however-scheduled for at least once a week-are so far taking place less than once a month. A North Philadelphia communications center called The Network tries to correct dangerous false rumors and get gang members into job-training programs. "The problem is solvable," says Mayor Frank Rizzo, "but it won't be done in my lifetime. I'd like to go out and raze every building out there and rebuild it all-schools, pools, parks, everything. But we don't have the money to do that...
Sadly, whites who protested against being singled out were too often attacked as racists. To be sure, some working class (and non-working class) whites are racists, and these impulses have been aggravated by the efforts of politicians like Frank Rizzo and Richard Nixon to win white votes for conservative programs. But this situation was further worsened by those on the left who cried "racist" far too quickly, thus encouraging disenchanted workers to seek refuge on the Right. In the end, the losers were those who had the greatest stake in social reform -- white workers, blacks and the student left...