New York City faces default risk in looming labor duel
The city’s unions demand raises beyond its means as NYC confronts a half billion dollars in wage increases and benefits for 1978 79. Treasury involvement skirts rescue by Congress while transit talks push deadline to April 1. With creditors wary banks reluctant and pensions tapped the city may slash services to avert bankruptcy and preserve fiscal stability.
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New York City
Big Apple
Labor Management
New York City Municipal Labor Committee
United Secretary of the Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Blumenthal
Congress
New York
At wit's end Clean cookie sheets
Humorous piece by Erma Bombeck about the obsession with keeping cookie sheets pristine. A domestic squabble unfolds as a husband jokes about car maintenance while a neighbor avoids the scene, highlighting quirks of American frugality and household rituals.
FBI Files Spotlight on Widener Column Debates
Alice Widener recounts a 1969 column on Communists on campus and her claim that FBI counter intelligence files include a reproduction of the piece. She details a tense FBI inquiry by Curt Matthews of the St Louis Post Dispatch and support from editors Ronald Willnow and Malcolm Johnson.
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Alice Widener
New York City
Carter
Curt Matthews
Washington
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mr. Matthews
Aptheker
Herbert Aptheker
National Committee of
The
Communist Party
U.S.A
Bryn Mawr College
Matthews
Columbia University
Barron
National Business & Financial Weekly
FBI
Barron's
Associated Press
Blank
Dr. Aptheker
St. Louis Post - Dispatch
Ronald Willow
Willnow
Tallahassee
The wrong solutions
Ralph de Toledano argues the Carter administration misuses its power in Rhodesia and the Middle East by backing the Patriotic Front and pressuring for deals without consent. He claims this risks bloodshed, opposes free elections, and accuses Washington of imposing self serving solutions rather than respecting local choice.
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Ralph de Toledano
Copley
Washington
United States
Middle East
Africa
Carter
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
State Department
Patriotic Front
Smith
Cyrus Vance
Zbigniew Brzezinski
America
Brzezinski
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Menachem Begin
Israel
White House
Sadat
Begin
Jerusalem
Vance
Syria
Jordan
West Bank
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Kennedy Center parking plan threatens artistic programs
Washington columnist Ron Hendren argues the Kennedy Center risks sacrificing free public services to fund a 1,400 car underground garage. He notes the center owes over 35 million dollars on the loan and proposes raising parking fees from 1 to 3 dollars to cover costs, criticizing taxpayer subsidization of arts and urging better funding instead of garage expansion.
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Ron Hendren
Washington
America
United States
New York
John F. Kennedy Center For the
Kennedy Center
U.S. Treasury Department
Congress
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
American Ballet Theater
U.S
Will Rogers on peace talks and Christmas spirit
Will Rogers notes the peace conference is starting strong and urges actions beyond Christmas. He urges continual kindness and reminds readers that goodwill should not be limited to one day. Edited selections from Will Rogers Memorial material.
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Hazard
Anderson Herald
George D Crittenberger
Harriet W Toner
Jane Toner Scott
A Ae
Robert E Jackson
Breenes
Juniper Charles W Laughlin
Ong Fupiane
Anderson
Indiana Carver
Herald
Ated Press
Will Rogers
Wen
Bryan Sterling
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