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...cuts in such areas as fire, police and sanitation seemed disproportionately high to some, who accused Mayor Abraham Beame of making such inflammatory reductions to increase his leverage with the state in Albany. In fact, firing workers in welfare, health services and some other fields would have saved less money; much of those salaries is paid from federal and state funds...
Civic leaders have responded to the crisis with their customary combativeness. "This is a street fight," Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone told Mayor Abraham Beame at a budget strategy session. "You've got to put your opponents up against the wall." "You're right," responded the embattled mayor, pounding the table. Faced with a looming budget deficit of as much as $1 billion, as well as the immediate cash-flow pinch, Beame offered an $11.9 billion "crisis" budget for fiscal 1976 that would be balanced by laying off about 50,000 city employees, including police and firemen...
...Emmylou Harris' emotional singing style owes more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold my life in his saving grace." As the melody begins to rise, she floats a light true soprano above the whining steel guitar: "I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham if I thought I could...
Last week New York's suspense story reached the melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget...
...Honduras, a six-member committee investigating the bribe concluded that the recipient had been former Economy Minister Abraham Benna-ton Ramos. He and Honduran Chief of State Oswaldo Lopez Arellano were both ousted from office last month in the wake of the scandal...