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Boston TV cancels
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BOSTON (AP) - Clergymen, public
officials and a professional football
team all announced plans yesterday to
try to calm the explosive racial climate
that prompted a Boston blackout of a
prime-time network television show.
WBZ-TV, at the urging of both black
and white community leaders, decided
against showing the two-part NBC
drama "Freedom Road," last night and
tonight, starring former heavyweight
boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
CARDINAL Humberto Medeiros,
joined by other religious leaders, told a
news conference of plans for a
"covenant" of racial harmony that
would be launched at an ecumenical
convocation Nov. 19 on Boston Com-
mon. After the service, Medeiros said,
every Bostonian would be urged to sign
the "covenant of justice, equity and
harmony.'
The involvement of Medeiros,
spiritual leader of the Boston Catholic
Archdiocese, is considered significant,
since approximately 75 per cent of the
city's population of 640,000 are
Catholics.
Included in the covenant is a call for
the rejection of "any and all special in-
terest groups and leaderships that ser-
ve only to deepen our divisions and en-
trench us, angered, into separate cam-
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management of the New England
Patriots and officials of the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority in the attempt to defuse the
city's tense atmosphere.
The Patriots asked their National
Football League players to volunteer to
meet with students in the city's racially
tense schools.
The transportation authority said
that, effective yesterday through Dec.
31, it would add buses to school transit
routes and increase security to prevent
skirmishes between black and white
students.
A STATEMENT from WBZ said the
Boston station's decision to cancel the
program, set in the Reconstruction
South, was based on "unusually
graphic incidents of racial violence
depicted, particularly violence against
children."
"The- film contained inflammatory
language and there were racial
stereotypes in it," said program direc-
tor Dick Kurlander of WBZ-TV, an NBC
affiliate owned by the Westinghouse
Broadcasting Co.
In New York, an NBC spokesman
said WBZ was the only affiliate to can-
cel the film. NBC had no further com-
ment.
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KRIS KRISTOFTERSON and Muhammad Ali, shown in their roles as,
respectively, a sharecropper and a former slave in the NBC made-for-TV
movie "Freedom load," won't be seen in Boston when the program airs
tonight. WBZ-TV, iBC's Boston affiliate, cancelled the movie because it
said, "The film migit heighten racial tensions in Boston."
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Wayne workers to,*1w laid off
TEAC HERS
DETROIT (UPI)-Layoff notices
were on the way yesterday to more than
4,800 employees of the near penniless
Wayne County.
The layoffs are effective Nov. 12, but
the county hopes to immediately call
back about half the workers to maintain
vital services. A sizeable sum will have
to be found somewhere, however, to
allow those recalls.
ORIGINALLY, OFFICIALS of the
nation's third largest county had hoped
to pay employees called back to work
with promissory notes. A circuit court
judge vetoed that plan last Friday.
County officials were hopeful of state
aid, although Gov. William G. Milliken
has vowed not to bail out the county
unless steps are taken to reform its
muddled, overlapping governmental
structure.
A relief package totaling nearly $11
million is pending in the legislature.
SPEAKING FOR MILLIKEN, who
was returning from a 10-day visit to
China, Lt. Gov. James H. Brickley said
he believes the governor will approve
the aid if a charter commission is for-
med to reorganize county government
and a legal conflict is resolvel to per-
mit a county executive form I gover-
nment..
"Obviously, if the legislatures able
to pass those two bills . .. it will often
our, problems considerably,"said
County Commission Chairman Ricard
Manning.
"There will still be some layoffs. tur
plan is to use those dollars ... for essti-
tial services."
THE COUNTY, WHICH has failed tc
balance its books for four years, faces a
$19.3 million deficit this year.
The county already twice has failed
to meet its payroll. About 3,100 em-
'ployees who were not paid two weeks
ago got their checks last Friday, while
another 2,600 went payless.
Ironically, while there is not enough
money to pay current county workers,
retirees have nothing to fear from the
county's financial crisis.
Alfred Bricker, executive secretary
of the county retirement system, said
there is about $325 million imi the pen-
sionefund.
"There is enough here to pay the
retirees forever," he said.
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ween scenes to clean up and rearrange
props in preparation for Doris' and
George's next visit. She even provided
some saucy humor as she steals an
illicit sip of Doris and George's leftover
champagne. It is a small bit, but one-
which adds in extra spark-something
sorely needed by this production.
Stanley Kramer's 1903
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