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Mass Transit. The political clout of the nation's largest cities will be severely tested as Congress grapples with Reagan's plan to end all federal subsidies for the operation of mass-transit systems by 1985 and to cut capital grants by $270 million in 1982. Some Amtrak officials gloomily predict that the result will be the end of a national rail system by 1985. More immediately, Amtrak expects to have to stop running eight commuter trains daily between New York City and Philadelphia, putting thousands of people back into cars at a time when the nation...
...dedicates chapters to a panel of emotional issues, alternately dedicated to bornagain Christians, tax revolters, and military beef-up adherents. The New Right is a coalition of single issue groups like these, who believe every American has a string waiting to be plucked. Laced together, these groups have considerable clout. Perhaps most pernicious and revealing is Viguerie's presentation of the "pro-family movement." He twists the issues to show a government that "encourages" abortions, shows "favoritism for homosexuality," and supports children being "flooded" with pornography. Viguerie beguiles with his facility for exposition: "Who and what are behind the anti...
...purge of both Politburo and lower-level cadres testifies to the clout of Solidarity. From a ragtag bunch of shipyard workers and dissidents, it has grown into a labor leviathan, with an estimated 10 million members (out of 17.3 million employed) in 54 chapters around the country. When a strike loomed in Warsaw, no less than Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski offered to dispatch a government helicopter to Gdansk to pick up Lech Walesa. Solidarity has even acquired a modicum of official respectability. To raise funds, it has sponsored a benefit performance at the National Opera House and auctions...
...will have a committee of people who are not only qualified to judge the accomplishments of possible appointees, but who also could have some clout in recruiting them for the Government. My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in Government. I want people who are already so successful that they would regard a Government job as a step down, not a step up. I don't want empire builders; I want people who will be the first to tell me if their jobs are unnecessary. Out there in the private sector...
...main issue of the campaign. Moore, whose expenses totaled $814,000, denounced his opponent for "trying to buy the election," but Rockefeller deflected the criticism by arguing that his inherited wealth insulated him from pressure by special-interest groups. Moore belittled Rockefeller's claim that he wielded clout in Washington in developing a national coal policy favorable to the state. Rockefeller, however, took credit for West Virginia's increased coal production (up to 112 million tons in 1979, the highest level since 1973). He now has his second term-and possibly a platform from which to launch...