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...York City's desperate leaders last week prayed for billions of federal dollars to stave off financial ruin, New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett entered his seventh month of directing coverage of his home town's woes. The assignment took him over familiar ground: born and raised in The Bronx, Barrett covered city hall for the now defunct Herald Tribune from...
Many of the city officials he knew on his old beat remain in high positions in city government. One of them, Mayor Abraham Beame, was director of New York's budget when Barrett first met him. "When I was growing up here and later covering city government," Barrett recalls, "New York was a proud town, an 'anything is possible' kind of place. No one was thinking about the unthinkable -that New York would be unable to pay its bills." Still, the city's current agony has an element...
...Barrett's reporting on the roots of the city's current crisis was supplemented by Correspondents Marcia Gauger and Robert Parker, who analyzed the city's most expensive programs-welfare and hospitals. Around the U.S., correspondents reported on the shivers that New York's threatened bankruptcy is sending through national financial markets. Says Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who catalogued the effects on other cities trying to borrow in order to meet expenses: "There's a virtual fruit basket of problems. The rot of the Big Apple could spoil a whole bunch of cities." From Washington...
Pricklier Problems. The censure of the trio, however emphatic, has no effect on their rights to preside over church ceremonies. But Bishop Robert Rusack has banned from his Los Angeles diocese a fourth prelate, George Barrett, the resigned bishop of Rochester, whose ordination of more women last month was "decried" at Portland. Meanwhile, many of the 14 women with disputed priestly credentials continue to celebrate Holy Communion in defiance of local bishops...
...employed a different format from their previous efforts. For instance, instead of being a collection of songs calling to mind a particular impression, Wish You Were Here revolves around a central piece called "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". This twenty-minute ode to the group's former leader, Syd Barrett, which opens the first side of the album, is a biographical piece tracing Barrett's experience as a member of the group and since his departure...