The Amsterdam News, the nation’s largest Black newspaper, states in an editorial this week that there can be “no compromise on Forest Hills.” A front page story in the same issue, claims that Simeon Golar, chairman of the city’s Housing Authority, who has been in the forefront of the battle to build the 840-unit low income project in the middle class predominately Jewish section of Queens, is destined to become a “sacrificial lamb” of the Lindsay administration because he “has become expendable to the political needs of the Mayor (John V. Lindsay) in his presidential bid.” According to the weekly, Golar’s ouster is “the only compromise” that can be worked out to appease Jewish opponents of the project.
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