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...fighters (and 1,941 other municipal workers) have been laid off during a two-year fiscal crisis. Racism is singularly virulent and regularly violent. After eight years of court-ordered busing, the proportion of whites enrolled in the city's public schools has dropped from 57% to 32%. Shrewd, mercurial Kevin White, 52, mayor for the past 15 years, loves to say that Boston is "the livable city." But one thoughtful police force veteran says, "The poor neighborhoods are being forgotten. What city hall sees is downtown, period...
...dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid pages to crusade for U.S. medical treatment for the "Hiroshima maidens" in the 1940s, for disarmament in the 1950s, for aid to rebuild a Vietnamese village ravaged by U.S. Marines in the 1960s. But he always proved a shrewd salesman; his special sections on topics such as education and stereo electronics often attracted foundation support or extra advertising. Cousins made SR solvent enough that McCall Corp., publisher of McCall's and other magazines, acquired it for $3 million...
...DEMOCRATIC legislators' submissiveness can in part be explained away as shrewd politicking, the people have no such excuse for the credulence and deference they continue to grant to their charismatic but inept President. After these many months of near-depression, and long after David Stockman's public admission that the President's "economic recovery program" was merely a blind and cyncial "Trojan Horse" to sell upward redistribution of income and wealth to the masses, those masses continue to believe that miracles will result from swallowing this bitter potion...
...peaceful solution of the bloody Lebanese standoff. That they did not do. As the contingent prepared to head back to Washington last week, having visited five countries and attracted a great deal of unwarranted attention, the five Democrats and one Republican no longer appeared to be a shrewd bunch of legislators honing their perceptions of the region. In stead, they stood revealed as a coterie of naive bumblers wandering helplessly among the battle-hardened chieftains of the Levant. A grand master of Middle East intrigue, P.L.O...
Allen, who earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Illinois, has a Pentagon reputation as a talented manager and a shrewd student of advanced weaponry, including nuclear-tipped missiles. But he pledges that he will try to ensure J.P.L.'s leadership in the peaceful study of the universe. Says he: "J.P.L. has done magnificent things in planetary exploration. I intend to seek the support of space scientists and do the best I can to continue that record of achievement." When he takes over from Murray on Oct. 1, J.P.L. space scientists will watch the physicist-general...