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Golden anniversary aside, there was little to celebrate as the National League of Cities convened its 50th "congress of cities" in Houston last week. Some 1,500 mayors, city managers and councilmen told grim tales of how inflation and recession are combining to raise costs and erode tax bases. Even as they met, the administrators got a backdoor reminder of one of their bigger problems: increased militancy by public employees. Houston's bus drivers were on strike, demanding higher...
...grim mood is evident in the talk of business and Government leaders...
RECENT REPORTS from Cambodia indicate that living conditions under the faltering Lon Nol regime have become particularly grim and are likely to worsen if the U.S. maintains the current stalemate there. The problem for the U.S. is not a question of "mopping up" a messy aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia; it is a question of renouncing a policy of belligerent imperialism and cutting off aid to the head of the Phnom Penh government...
...alternatives to such courses are grim. Israeli and Syrian troops are currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...
During a recent television interview, David O'Connell, chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, issued a grim warning. Because of the "total indifference" of the British public to the "terrible war in Ireland," he said, the British "will suffer the consequences." O'Connell sanctimoniously promised that the Provisional I.R.A. would strike only at "economic, military, political and judicial targets." Last week the Irish militants made good their threat, but tragically they chose a target of a different and more innocuous sort...