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Racial Tensions Simmering,Expert On Disorder ClaimsJROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) —• i ing followed the assassination of An expert on civil disorder said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But today racial tensions across the: he added that has center’s cam-nation seem to be simmering j pilation of data for this year iswhile potential militants a'policy actions by the Nixon ministration.still incomplete.try to put it into perspec-his summer has not beenaSpiegel, director free of disturbancesBraindeis Universitynumberdisturbances thatCenter for the Study of have occurredcontinued unrest- ~ ’ ----y --------r- ' Idescribe the situation asmmiia holding operation. Nixon has been moving so slowlv that bothwhether pressuremi problems wouldtansifv in the event of a majorj ive a ‘wait and see’ attitude, j de-escalation of the Vietnam « “It is not clear whether he is war, Spiegel said.going to take action that will re-problemswhether lie’s going to lake no be needed HiTtion or take action that will they need“People are fairlv realistic about the time that is going tothose problems worsej which President Nigiven yet, that therehas summer home.“At same point, this ‘wait andsee’ afttotude will come to an end. and if there has been really no improvement, then things may begm to get worse.“We know that young peoplein black communities and whitetheincreased effort to relieve problems of the city.”The Lemberg Center is examining the role of the media in reporting racial incidents, he said, and has found that “all summer, the disturbances have been buried on the Inside)»communities are heavily pages.armed. I don't regard that as j “I think there is a policy ofreassuringftmediat*Spiegel saidSpiegel said this summer’s; “It may well be that this policy domestic unrest apparently has of restraint is responsible for shown “a relative coolness”. the disorders that have oe-compared to two summers ago, curred not getting more escalator Aon! of lasn vear when riot- ed.“
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1969
Page 14
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