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...such progress may not be enough to defuse Newark. While last summer's riots were devastating the Negro neighborhoods, they were iust as disastrously poisoning some sections of the white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored...
...hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury, from the convoluted alleys of Chinatown to the psychedelic strip-and-clip joints of North Beach, encompassing en route labor unions, symphony lovers and Mayor Joseph L. (for Lawrence) Alioto, 52, the millionaire son of an immigrant Sicilian fisherman.* Last week, a scant 2½ months after assuming office, Joe Alioto was well on the way to opening the Golden Gate for an array of hyperkinetic urban programs...
...Opinion samplers gave him 10% to 20%. Instead, he polled a stunning 42.2% of the Democratic vote to Johnson's 49.4%. With an addition al 5,511 Republican write-ins (McCarthy, astonishingly, ran third on the G.O.P. ticket), he trailed the President in the overall tally by a scant 230 votes...
...pollsters predicted that John Kennedy would win nine of the state's ten Congressional districts from Hubert Humphrey. The Massachusetts Senator carried only six districts, however, with a scant 56 per cent of the popular vote...
Before Tet, CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) estimated that 82% of the population of 5.3 million lived in secure hamlets, some 13% in contested hamlets and only a scant 5% under hardcore Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small...