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...Patrolmen's Benevolent Association-were talking more calmly. Moreover, while TIME correspondents found that union members were universally unhappy with Beame and his cost-cutting plans, most were not enthusiastic about striking. Explained an adviser to several of the labor leaders: "They are aware that if the police, the firemen and the bridge tenders go out, there could be chaos, there could be deaths. It would be horrible. They don't want that." Even so, many corporate leaders in New York were making
While some New York City workers, notably the firemen, are rated among the best in the country, too many others do not earn their pay. The city's Productivity Council recently reported that in a single division of the parks department there are five supervisors, all charged with much the same responsibilities. The report notes: "Consequently the probability of no one doing a job is as great as having five people do it." Nearly one-third of the 74,393 employees of the board of education are classified as nonpedagogical: they do not teach. Many teachers aspire to administrative ranks...
...laid in extra supplies of food. Rather unnecessarily, Radio Lebanon appealed to its listeners to stay indoors because "all streets are unsafe." Sharif Akhawi, one of the country's best-known radio announcers, broadcast repeated warnings about roving bands of armed men. As fighting escalated, he called for firemen to return to their stations and for blood donors to help hospitals whose supplies once again were running low. Occasionally his voice broke with the strain...
...internal-security-force Jeeps in the town had their license plates covered with paper or daubed with mud-suggesting that these units were covertly aiding the Christians. As the fighting increased between a reported 3,000-man Moslem force and 2,000 Zghartawis, buildings burned out of control because firemen could not reach them, and stores were plucked clean by looters...
Passionate Familiarity. So much for the public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...