CITY GETS WARNING ON RACIAL UNREST

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August 18, 1966
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22 : CIA-RDP01-01773R000100130090-1 a uu - - -S+ _ - ;qt-BABtd:. "There is no indication that these riots were planned, con- trolled or run by extreme,left- wing elements," he said. In this, he disagreed with a Cleveland grand jury,, which last week concluded that left wing agitators had fomented the Hough rioting. The true agitators, Mr. Katz. enbach said, are "named disease and despair,' joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested hous- ing and long-impacted cyni- cism." He placed the blame on "gen- erations of indifference by all the Americalu people to the rot and rust and mold which we have allowed, to eat into the core of our cities CITY GETS WARNING 011 RACIAL UNRE'ST Fourteen Puerto Rican and Negro leaders in the Browns- ville-East New York section of Brooklyn, where racial fighting broke, out last month, said last night the city would have to act or they could not help keep the peace. Bill Wright, president of the United Negro and Puerto Rican Front. . told the Night Mayor, Robert Sweet, executive assist- ant to, Mayor Lindsay: "There is a time limit. This is aft ultimatum. We will-not sit down at a table again. We eons, more parks and recrek tional facilities and the demoli- tion of vacant buildings.. ; "You have the money and the m(anpower. Mr.' Wright told He and seven others started to walk out, but Mr. Sweet talked them into staying and promised he would visit some slum homes after the meeting. After the meeting Mr. Wright Took the Night Mayor to East Nw~wwv York apartments and slibwed him broken water pipes, -leaky ceilings, holes in ceilings floors and apartments with- STAT ..__._._ ,4 iLCn rca e tlJ.itLC... CC fns w c. W., nu e. ?r~-r-_?.u~-.. ~..~wt~n-..--. p= .- Harlem The principal spekeMeanwhile, Dr. King said atj "I'm just, not satisfied," Mr. men yesterday included .L_ Rev _ -_. . -F_ - _ director of the New York Ur- in order to "keep this issue ban League: David Dinkins, a;the forefront of public att Harlem. Assemblyman; J,'cseltion." th Ld eaership Conference, and New York City Commission on Chicago groups banded toget Human Rights; Livingston Lain the Coordinating Council Wingate, executive director oficpmmunity Organizations , ntveyoi nta rdfh Hope R. Stevns,igan marching into all-wh Community Planning Board 10hav to ..eg, .in Harlem, said te assessed'have been met with viol valuation of possible sites in, by white residents. Harlem ranged from $990 toj Stoned and Jeered symbols of "white r" feeking to incite ents to race hatred. Police Superintendent Or W. Wilson said yesterday at civil rights demonstrations ayor Richard J. Daley, primeM target of rights work because of allegations that effort-to find a solution to city's racial torment ;railroad executive, who~li on Chicago's south Side, was President ? Johnson's ch earner this suinlater. , , Others at: the conference e Kia,g' organizatiot ' an aced Chicago civil in clear, Senator," Mr. Katzen6ach n_ retorted. At another point, Senator Kennedy said that the Admin- istration's demonstration cities program-designed to combine physical renewal and social im- provements in city slum areas -'is really just a drop in the bucket for what we really need." "Senator," Mr. Katzenbach said patiently, "this dembnstra- tion cities program is just the kind of philosophy you've been'i asking for." President Johnson had sought $2.3-billion over six years for the demonstration cit- ies program. The bill, tentative- utieng these communities into battlegrounds for extremist and racist elements who are now flocking to these neigghboh'hoods to foment more trouble " At the same time, he pro- posed, the Chicago Reel 'Estate Board should recommend to all broke that they comply "fn letter and spirit" with the city's housing ordinance. Th civil rights organizations c'onten that relators often refuse to ou he l Mr. Maros asked, th e boards work with his commission andu the Conferencepn:Religion and Race WW set up es f tel . com faints flied with. it tin regard to race. vii :right workers charge that this is no Ep* the isco ..Zim Chi cago, and Dr. Do ld, Bof JOHNSON DECORATE RABORN HAILS CJ.A. WASHING TON, Aug. 17 (AP) -President 'oh ion dKended the Central teligence Agency today as hey decorated" Adm. William F. Reborn Jr.. who re- cently retired as the' aSkney's He expressed "deep -confl3 dence in the: expert and dell seated service of peesoJ nn1?, the agency." , said. 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