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Since Proposition 13 forbids new or increased taxes without a two-thirds vote of the area's "qualified electors," the city council took the precaution of passing such items as higher business and animal license charges, and building, plumbing and electrical permit fees before election day. One woman paid $125 for a permit to build a sewer line from her house to the main pipe; if she had come the day before, her charge would have been...
...argument as fraudulent. Soldier for soldier, weapon for weapon, Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East despite its small size; the West Bank, which almost certainly would be demilitarized in a peace settlement giving it autonomy, has no airport, no arms factories and no means to build them. Pointing to the millions of Palestinian exiles living in Lebanon, Jordan and other Arab states, they ask: Why should Jewish emigrants from Russia and the U.S. have the right to settle on land that Arabs have lived on for at least 1,000 years, while refugees born in Haifa...
...Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest, got a new industrial enterprise. Why was the plant towed halfway round the globe instead of being built on the site? Says an I.H.I, spokesman: "It would have taken far more time to build so sophisticated a project there, with inadequate roads and cargo-handling facilities...
Ludwig is a restless recluse at 80 and, some employees suggest, is seeking to build a pyramid to himself, a monument to his ten-year quest to tame a stretch of jungle almost the size of Connecticut and make it productive. Says an associate, Luis Antonio Oliveira: "Mr. Ludwig is nearing the end of his life, and he is more interested in undertaking something of great socioeconomic significance than in earning quick profits." Still, Ludwig is betting that a worldwide paper shortage is coming by 1985 and will make his gamble...
During World War II, the Government spurred construction of defense plants by offering "certificates of necessity," which allowed companies to deduct the costs from their taxes in only five years. Now, says Jones, the Government should permit fast write-offs for the plants that companies build in pockets of youth and minority unemployment...