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...shabbily dressed invaders were not the young rock freaks who had recently occupied the house next door on Arrowhead Drive in Collinsville, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. Rather, they were agents of the federal Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (DALE), backed up by perhaps a dozen policemen. As the Giglottos tell it, the raiders two weeks ago ransacked the house and loosed a fusillade of obscenities that they threatened to follow with bullets. They forced the couple to lie on the bed face down and handcuffed them. The leader of the group held a cocked revolver...
Robert Rowland, director of the CRA, said last night that the CRA would make a "concerted effort" to find industrial uses for the Kendall Square site, but that market forces might mitigate the possibility of finding blue-collar employers...
...representative of Hard Times, JoAnn Allen, said that she did not trust the CRA to look for blue-collar jobs. "Don't split the Quadrangle and Triangle--they're one area," she said. "Before you know it, they'll be back to the original plan and the people are zonked...
...down as a physical worker [the Polish term for blue-collar worker]." Then, returning to the witness: "Have you indulged in debauchery...
Hard Times and the CTOC contend that the plan would destroy more blue-collar jobs than it would create, and that it also fails to provide any low-income housing. The Council will study the plan in subcommittee meetings before reaching any decision...