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...plight of Bed-Stuy is extreme but easily recognizable to any big-city mayor in the region. After trimming its payroll by 20% over the past two years, New York City must make additional cuts to meet Mayor Abraham Beame's promise of a balanced budget by June 30, 1978. New York Governor Hugh Carey this week will announce details of a further squeeze in public services to keep the state solvent...
...Carter vowed that his Administration would not let New York City go into bankruptcy. Meeting with Mayor Abraham Beame and New York's Governor Hugh Carey, the President-elect did not spell out what rescue plans he had in mind, but his assurances were expected to encourage banks and unions to help refinance some of the city's onerous debt. Asked for a reaction to the meeting, Carey beamed: "Peachy...
...SSRC agitator, another student, Shadrack, 17, met me in a remote section of Soweto. "We are not a bunch of bomb-throwing radicals," he insisted. "Because we struggle for a decent education, the authorities call us Communists. What rubbish! My heroes are not Marx and Lenin. They are Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Our campaign is peaceful, non-Communist and nonviolent. How many police have been killed in this bloodshed? Three? That should prove which side is the violent one." (Officially, the SSRC has deplored firebombings buttressing its boycott...
...wake of the joint expose, the county attorney asked a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the charges; state and federal law enforcement officials launched their own investigations. It all reminds some Clinton citizens of what Abraham Lincoln said in 1858 as he stood three blocks from what is now Long's jail: "You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time...
...Vann Woodward has called it, "the age of free security." As usual, Abraham Lincoln depicted it most vividly. "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years...