Word: councilman
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...still protected -- and encouraged -- by knowing that they can write off storm damage on their taxes.* In many cases, they can depend on federal flood insurance for at least partial reimbursement in case of disaster. Environmentalists believe the insurance program actually encourages building in high-risk locales. Says Town Councilman Neil Wright, of Surfside Beach, S.C.: "It's an incentive to build in dangerous places. The feds need to change the rules...
...guarantees of freedoms of speech, assembly, belief and movement. As evidence, it notes that the new law will continue the current ban on travel and on any opposition to the KMT's claim of sovereignty over all of China. Says Frank Hsieh, a D.P.P. member and Taipei city councilman: "Our principle is that when martial law is abolished, we should return to a full constitutional system...
...councilman's platform acknowledges and is very sympathetic to the concerns...
...proposal is the brainchild of L.A. Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
Still, the proposal faces broad opposition, particularly from civil rights organizations. "We're redlining ourselves," says Raymond Johnson Jr., president of the Los Angeles N.A.A.C.P. "If this were proposed by a white councilman in Jackson, Miss., on the premise that it's black-on-black crime and blacks ought to pay for it, it would be a national outrage." Johnson and others argue that if well-to-do neighborhoods were to take the cue and vote to hire their own police, not to mention fire fighters, street cleaners and tree trimmers, they would be even more likely to oppose further...