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If one looks at the property taxes collected by the state, one finds that Alabama has one of the highest property tax rates in the nation. A University of Alabama business school study found that 2.6 per cent of the total tax collections of the state in 1974 came from...
One of the measures that embitter blacks most is the Land Tenure Act of 1970. The law divided the country in two. Rhodesia's 278,000 whites got the right to own land in the richest and most fertile half. (Ian Smith has two 10,000-acre spreads.) The...
Salisbury's whites enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world. On an average wage of $8,000 a year, they can buy a three-or four-bedroom house on an acre of land with two bathrooms and swimming pool for $46,000 and a 7.75...
In the all-black townships of Highfield and Harare outside Salisbury, the tin-roofed, cement-floored cinder-block houses are packed six to the acre. Blacks are not allowed to own their own homes. Instead, they must rent them from the Salisbury city council. Only the main streets are paved...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for Community Affairs, said plans to build a residential housing complex on the 32-acre site in Allston result from the common desire of local residents and University officials to prevent the area from becoming over-industrialized.