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...Abraham Isaac Carmel...
...response from New York was swift. "I don't think this Administration understands the problems of cities," snapped Mayor Abraham Beame. City Council President Paul O'Dwyer's protest was succinct: "Crass stupidity." Their irritation had some justification. While the city is trying to raise a modest $960 million to make ends meet this month, the U.S. Treasury is borrowing almost $6 billion. Indeed, Treasury Secretary William Simon has said he was "optimistic" that this year's federal deficit can be held to a mere $60 billion on a budget that will include $3.4 million...
...capital budget. City workers have agreed to put off their promised 6% wage raise, and come next summer, those who work in air-conditioned offices will have to stop leaving the job an hour early. These were some of the "slashing economies" that a grim-looking Mayor Abraham Beame announced last week, adding, "There is nothing I have done in public life that has been more bitter...
...every mayor's mind was the sad example of New York, where Mayor Abraham Beame had approached the current fiscal year with a budget gap that , he calculated at $641 million. The city made up part of the deficit by tax increases. Beame hopes to eliminate the rest by layoffs that are expected to total 20,000 employees out of a work force of 338,000. But the unions will hardly tolerate that. Two weeks ago, for example, Beame dismissed nearly 3,000 of the city's 10,600 sanitation men. After a wildcat strike, they were rehired...
...three days, as the garbage festered, Mayor Abraham Beame quickened his shuttle negotiations with Albany, trying to find a new accommodation for the city. The task was considerably complicated by Beame's being caught in a political crossfire between Democratic Governor Hugh Carey and State Senate Republican Leader Warren Anderson, who tied any increase in state aid and taxing power to increased school aid for his suburban constituency...