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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1967
Page
5
Opinion piece argues Carmichael fuels urban riots through racial grievance and calls for armed disobedience. Warns that insistence on revolutionary rhetoric harms both black and white communities, urging lawful prosecution within the Constitution and broader efforts to halt violence and pursue legitimate reform.
Washington reports indicate concerns that the Johnson administration may have given prisoner issues low priority. A State Department insider says Secretary of State Rusk has told aides that prisoner problems were not being fully addressed.
Drew Pearson outlines how Americans in North Vietnam are treated as bargaining chips while U.S. efforts for prisoner exchanges falter. He notes Pentagon secrecy, restricted access for Red Cross, and unclear totals of POWs and missing servicemen amid ongoing diplomacy and failed exchanges.
In Washington confrontations over central city programs critics warn that violence and hate are stirred by revolutionaries. While supporting physical and cultural improvements for Negro communities and workers nearby, they say guaranteed income, housing, schools, and jobs alone won’t quell unrest. The extremists aim for a total power shift.
A provocative plan argues that vivid imagination could justify utopian measures in the slums to raise median incomes of Negroes high enough to dampen revolutionary fervor and prevent riots, suggesting a drastic societal reengineering.
The text argues rioting is limited to a small fraction of the Negro population and inspired by inciters among educated and aspirational groups. It claims welfare and state-aided urban life do not produce revolution, contrasts domestic policy with the Marshall Plan, and urges non hysterical city slum reform with central planning rather than fragmented projects.
The piece recalls the August 1967 start of the Jim dandy report by Clark Clifford and Gen Maxwell Taylor. It details their Southeast Asia tour praising the Johnson administration, and a later Paris mission to gauge De Gaulle policy, reporting “general agreement” with the president’s Vietnam conduct.
Creighton Doubs of the White House staff recounts how administrations sought optimistic portrayals of policy. Teams toured urban ghettos and Southeast Asia to produce comforting reports, praising weather research and wartime decisions while shaping public perception of progress.
Editor laments the rapid transit quagmire and rising auto costs borne by individuals. He condemns industrial failures, pollution, unsafe products, and false advertising, urging the transport sector to rise to meet public needs without placing the burden on small motorists. Lakewood
A Long Beach reader urges Congress to block a proposed rise in first class and air mail rates. The letter cites annual losses of 236 million on magazines 309 million on junk mail and 208 million on non profits and argues the increase would hurt low income elderly and welfare recipients. Readers are asked to contact their representatives and request action.
A voice questions riot causes focusing on ghetto confinement, landlord neglect, and unsanitary housing. The speaker demands health department action, landlord accountability, and scrutiny of who owns slums and grants privileges. The piece frames landlords as oppressive figures driving housing inequities.
An editorial criticizes a Negro group demanding suspensions of two officers who detained a 17 year old Black boy. It argues mob pressure harms the police, calls for solutions like housing and jobs, and urges avoiding ill planned actions. The piece also questions harbor relics and urges spending on modernization.
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