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Lannon's proposed budget would increase spending 13 per cent over last year; with inflation running at 18 per cent and state and federally-mandated programs increasing, the new budget would force the schools to fire 80 teachers and virtually close down departments like elementary guidance and remedial reading...
There is a chance, however, that taxes may be held down. Gov. Edward J. King's 4-per-cent spending cap, adopted during Proposition 13 fever, can be overridden only if six members of the City Council vote...
...taxes only increase 4 per cent, obviously services will have to be reduced still further...
...increase of more than 250 per cent may be attributed to one particular male who had harassed a number of female students before police arrested him, Police Capt. Jack W. Morse said yesterday. He added that of the 100 reported incidents of such calls this year, probably more than 80 can be attributed to this person...
...proposal notes the growth since 1965 of Harvard's Third World community from 1 per cent to 20 per cent of the College's students and deplores the University's continuing treatment of Third World students as "an insignificant minority without legislative needs, history, and culture...