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...Most states in the North and Midwest had increases below the national average. The two regions will lose an estimated 16 seats to the West and South when the census is used to reapportion the 1982 Congress. If, that is, the troubled head count is ever finished. A fire in Brooklyn destroyed New York returns; a recount is under way. A federal judge in Detroit has ordered adjustments for alleged undercounts there. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to set aside the judge's order so that the 1980 census can be delivered to the President...
...October, authorities seized 80 tons of pot on a 100-ft. barge equipped with two conveyor belts for fast unloading. Last month the crew of a Coast Guard patrol craft received permission to fire on a fleeing supply boat, only the second time since Prohibition that the Coast Guard has shot at a U.S.-registered vessel in peacetime. Seized were 70 tons of marijuana; 16 Colombians were arrested...
Other towns are adjusting to 2½ with cutbacks that could anger voters. In Springfield, where citizens supported 2½, officials are letting 46 vacancies in the fire and police departments go unfilled. In Braintree, School Superintendent John Monbouquette has threatened to shut down five elementary schools and eliminate all sports below the high school level. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White estimates that the current city budget of $862 million will have to be trimmed by $79 million, which, he warns, means cuts of 25% for police and fire services, 50% for health and hospitals and 60% for parks...
...executives for more than four months to analyze the city's books and management problems. By April, Cleveland had balanced its budget. Voinovich persuaded local banks to refinance $10.5 million in defaulted notes last month, and in effect to loan the city another $25.7 million - both at a fire-sale interest rate of 8⅞. The crisis has not entirely passed...
...Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habré agreed to a cease-fire sponsored by the Organization of African Unity...