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...seven years lawmakers in Santa Barbara, Calif., took a tough approach to the growing problem of homelessness in the affluent city nearest to President Reagan's West Coast ranch. Anyone who spent a night in a public park risked a police rousting. But as the numbers of dispossessed grew, and police began cracking down, Santa Barbara came in for increasing criticism and ridicule. Last week, as Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned Santa Barbara in his comic strip and Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based activist, threatened to march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city...
...Morgan Jr.'s private car, the Erie 400, is rolling again, partly owned by John Hankins, an attorney from Huntington, W.Va. Most private-car owners seem to be fairly affluent, though some admit to being drastically less affluent after upkeep and renovations. "Sooner or later the cost of maintaining a car gets to you," says Larry Haines, 71, a retiree who has spent nearly $40,000 on the Clover Colony in 14 years. Haines' car is a bargain compared with the Caritas, a 1948 Pullman bought for $10,000 three years ago by Clark Johnson, a Denver physicist. Some...
...welfare usually calls up images of broken families in hard-pressed city neighborhoods. But controversial provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985, the farm bill passed by Congress last December, have given new meaning to the term. Even as thousands of farmers struggle to make ends meet, some affluent growers will reap multimillion-dollar federal subsidies for this year's crops. These farmers, says Robert Thompson, Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Economics, "may get looked upon as the welfare queens...
Hungary, though, is now at a crossroads, preparing for the inevitable end of the Kadar era even as some of the bloom has gone from its enviable economic achievements. The economy, which during the 1970s grew at a robust 4.5% annual clip, is now slumping, widening the gap between affluent and less fortunate Hungarians. Private and state-run companies are ringing up huge losses, and traditional export markets are shrinking. Says one Hungarian journalist: "The mood is more unsettled and apprehensive in this country than at any time since...
...Group Areas Act, which keeps blacks in townships far from city business districts and affluent white suburbs, remains a cornerstone of South Africa's policy. The government's harsh new controls on the domestic and foreign press, adopted since State President P.W. Botha declared a nationwide state of emergency on June 12, have further impaired the whites' vision and suppressed any struggling sensitivity to the plight of the country's 24 million blacks...