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Citibank's foray into the future goes beyond automatic tellers. This month a hundred Citibank customers in the New York City borough of Queens will give up their checkbooks in favor of small computer terminals installed by the bank in their homes. These desktop devices will enable customers to electronically pay their bills or rent, stop payment on a previously paid bill, take out a loan, open a new savings account or check on the balance of an existing...
Organizers. "Red Ted" Knight, an avowed Marxist and mentor to the Greater London Council's Ken Livingstone, is head of London's Lambeth borough council. He loudly protested police action during the riots, mostly by blacks, in Lambeth's Brixton section in April. Said he: "Lambeth is now under an army of occupation. Steps are being taken by the police to set up the same apparatus of surveillance as one sees in concentration camps." A fastidious dresser who drives a BMW, Knight is an unlikely looking street radical, but it is from the pavements that he draws...
Thus there were indications that police action had helped to fan the other resentments smoldering in the neighborhood. Indeed, just three months ago, the borough of Lambeth, where Brixton is located, had investigated police-community relations in the area and found them "extremely grave." A Lambeth committee had recommended that the Sus law be abolished. Then Parliament indicated that it would prepare the necessary legislation for effective repeal, but it was still pondering the legislation when Brixton exploded. What added a final poignancy to the violence was the fact that the extra police details in Brixton were to have been...
...Holmes effort antedate the regulation, they can continue AFP testing without waiting for FDA approval. These research centers include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham, where Dr. Aubrey Millunsky, assistant professor of Pediatrics, has been directing AFP testing since 1973, and the Foundation for Blood Research in Scar-borough, Maine...
...Quandary is back. This time, the controversy surrounds Daniel Petrie's Fort Apache, the Bronx, a movie which purports to show what the South Bronx is really like, through the experiences of the officers of the borough's 41st precinct. Art and social responsibility clash once again. Community activists in the South Bronx have declared the film racist while its makers defend its accuracy in depicting the area from a cop's point of view...