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...many respects the council's power is more negative than positive. It can block projects initiated by the City Manager. but it has relatively little authority to begin them on its own. Only the manager can propose appropriations: he also retains the power to appoint most of the important administrators in the City...
...Israelis, who have ruled Arab Jerusalem since 1967, protested their innocence, but in vain. Premier Golda Meir convoked an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem to offer help in repairing the mosque (the offer was spurned) and to appoint an investigating commission that included two Arab dignitaries (local Moslems named their own board of inquiry). Sheik Hilmi Al-Muh-tasib, chairman of Jerusalem's Moslem Council, quickly summoned newsmen to pointedly announce that "a blond, freckled man dressed in khaki, who did not appear to be a Palestinian," had been seen fleeing from the mosque just before the fire. That...
...competitive newspaper town. After decades of blood-and-thunder headlines, the scramble today, says Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, is "to become more relevant to our times." Romanoff's flamboyant American has even changed its name to a more underplayed Chicago Today. The Sun-Times' method was to appoint Yale Graduate Jim Hoge, 33, as its editor. "Our ideal," says Hoge, "is to give all the people a hearing for their point of view. We are selling the Sun-Times as a paper that is changing." Adds Dedmon: "Because of the changes, you can read any of the four...
...Greek isles are once more crowded with foreign visitors. Pressure on the U.S. has also been fruitless. Unwilling to press a valuable NATO ally too far, Washington has limited its efforts with the regime to friendly persuasion, a cut in heavy arms supplies, and the failure to appoint a new ambassador to Athens...
...members of the Student Personnel Dept. hired to do the job? The current City College bulletin suggests the latter: "Members of the Department conduct a series of orientation classes for all entering students and provide individual orientation interviews" (page 175). Isn't it up to Dr. Gallagher to appoint a Black and Puerto Rican administrative superstructure with which student volunteers can work...