European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Robson and Tori Dufau standing in front of their new Home. Up photo resurgence of racism by Aurelio Rojas United press International Ori and Robson Dufau had vowed not to surrender to the hate Campaign that began a month alter they settled into a working class neighbourhood in los Angeles. But in May a week after their easter Rabbit was shot to death the Duffus gave in and moved alarmed by the escalating violence concerned about its Impact on sheif 5-year-old son and worn Down after five months of fighting ii was the latest Case in what housing officials describe As a resurgence particularly in the nation s Urban areas of racial vitriol aimed at minorities moving into predominantly while working class neighbourhoods. Tori Dufau a 26-year-old school nurse is Black. Her husband a 23-year-old Hospital worker is White. Bui officials say the recent incidents Are More complicated than the Black while confrontations that led to the passage of the fair housing act in 1968. They contend that Urban tensions have been re ignited by a housing shortage exacerbated by a decrease in Federal subsidies and by keen Competition pitting various minority groups against working class Whites for increasingly hard to find affordable housing. Last november a month after the Duffus leased a neat stucco Home in los Angeles Westchester area 400 Whites gathered outside the Home of a Black family in Southwest Philadelphia chanting we want them  neighbors said they were upset Over rumours that Blacks got preferential treatment in buying houses the family which moved three weeks later had bought their House with assistance from the veterans administration. A Day later 300 youths chanting beat ill beat it gathered outside the Home of an interracial family three blocks away. The family has stayed but the incidents caused mayor Wilson Goode to a declare what turned into a month Long state of emergency barring Public gatherings of More than four. Last june Mabel Gant. A 67-year-old Black woman burned to deals when her Home in Cleveland s  was firebombed. The Gants were one of the few Black families in the predominantly polish neighbourhood where three teen agers were arrested just before Christmas for a Cross burning in front of the Home of a Black family. The month Gant was killed the House of a Black couple in Louisville s predominantly White Sylvania area House in Philadelphia abandoned by a Black family after demonstrations by White neighbors was later extensively damaged by a auspicious lire. Was destroyed by a firebomb the couple recently filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the three people charged with the firebox big conspired with members of the Kun flux klan to Force them out of i he neighbourhood. Discrimination More Ollen is Subtle last fall voters in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn approved an ordinance Banning non residents from City Parks the action which is being challenged by the a act and the Acle was viewed by critics As an attempt to keep Blacks out of Dearborn which has a reputation of excluding Blacks most cases of housing discrimination go unreported. Said Charles Bromley executive director of the National neighbors a Cleveland based civil rights Organ Zahon with a lobbying office in Washington. Do the . Housing and Urban development department estimates that about 2 million incidents go undetected each year and they Are Able to track Only about 4,000," said Bromley a lot of people i d imagine who gel turned away May not realize they be been discriminated  said a Hud spokesman who spoke on the condition that he not be identified or maybe they say the Heck with it i la go somewhere else " the recent flurry of highly publicized incidents. Bromley said Are symptomatic of a More widespread problem there is a resurgence of racially motivated violence thai is occurring in major Urban areas throughout the country and probably the most distressing thing is that the Federal government is failing to investigate these acts he said. Justice department statistics Bear out Bromley s charges of an upswing in racially motivated attacks. In the past year we prosecuted 30 people in racial violence cases and the year before there were 36, which was the highest figure in a  said John Wilson assistant director of Public affairs for the Justice department in Washington Back in 1977 and 1978. We Only prosecuted five and three cases respectively he said. Now it s seven to 10 times that much. We Lake this Mailer very seriously Wilson said. It s a priority item for the Justice  sunday july 13, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 13