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...residents enjoy subsidized rents that average $40 a month along with more generous income tax deductions than other Israelis receive. Evacuation ought to be financially easier for many southerners, but they are as bitter about it as Israelis in the north. Says Shimon Eluz, 35, a painting contractor who settled near Sharm el Sheikh because he loved skin diving in the deep-blue waters: "It seems to me that Israel paid a high price for the chance to get peace. Why should we give up all of Sinai? God forbid, Sadat can take back everything and then stab a knife...
...more votes for the President's programs than has his opponent, G.O.P. Senator John Tower. But Krueger is friendlier than the Democratic candidate for Governor, John Hill, who refused to be even seen in public with Rosalynn. Earlier in the campaign, Hill's G.O.P. adversary, Drilling Contractor William Clements, had tossed a rubber chicken at him during a banquet with the warning: "I'm gonna hang the Carter Administration around Hill's neck like a dead chicken...
...steel, an error for which Cruz claims full responsibility. However, Cruz alleges, "Harvard's attitude was that when they saw the job was going bad, instead of helping me by assisting with the cash flow, they thought that I couldn't handle the loss because I was a minority contractor." Cruz explains that the University's contract with him required monthly payments based on his requests. He says Harvard started "tightening the screws" on the money flow, often settling on an amount below his request, making it difficult for him to make payments to his subcontractors...
Cruz also says that Harvard lacked sensitivity in dealing with him. When the job started going over the scheduled completion date they threatened to call in his bonding company, a move he claims was motivated by the fact that they assumed that since he was a minority contractor he would go bankrupt. In order to avoid the bonding company coming in, Cruz agreed to settle for the monthly payments the University decided on, rather than the amounts he really needed. He claims he had to settle for the University's decision on the cash for the value of the work...
...assistant to the Master for South House, says. To inaugurate the addition for social purposes, South House plans to hold a Quadrangle Quadrille on September 30. The University, it seems, has succeeded in enhancing the quality of life at South House, but it may well have mistreated the minority contractor responsible for that improvement. It remains to be seen if the Cruz Construction Company can iron out its differences with the University, or whether it will have to resort to legal action...