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Condo enthusiasts answer those arguments with claims of their own. "60 to 80 percent of condos are sold to the tenants who lived in the apartment that was converted," Walsh contends. "Buying those units is a stabilizing factor for them--there is no better rent control than a mortgage," he added. The "homeless elderly" problem will be solved soon too, Frisoli says. "There are two bills in the state legislature to protect the elderly from condo conversions. That seems to be the sore point, and it will be long gone by election day," he said...
With the blacks' interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict heightened and the sympathies of their leaders beginning to tilt toward the Palestinians, a potentially powerful political force could emerge as a new domestic factor in U.S. policymaking for the Middle East. In the weeks ahead, however, Washington's course seems reasonably clear. The Administration is likely to await the outcome of the three-day summit between Begin and Sadat, scheduled to begin in Haifa the first week in September. A few days later Bob Strauss will return to the region to try to quicken the pace...
...central factor is mime, in which a goodly number of the company mimic the balletic prancing of Thoroughbreds. The equine hero is Strider (Gerald Hiken), whose bloodlines must somewhere have tangled with those of Harpo Marx. Strider is a piebald gelding and, because of that, very infra dig. Metaphorically, he is a Russian serf in a land where serfdom, at all unhappy times, seems endemic. Yet all men are serfs of some sort, as Tolstoy points out. And every serf, like every dog, does have his glorious days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly...
Organized by a group called Women Against Pornography, this unlikely female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against...
Perhaps the biggest factor in the resort's decline is man's intervention with nature. One of the many barrier islands off the U.S.'s Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Miami Beach is vulnerable to waves, winds and the natural ebb and flow of its fragile sands. During the first great Florida land boom in the early 1920s and the second boom of the 1950s, the beach's problems were compounded by unrestrained growth. Developers put up mansions, hotels and condominiums almost at the water's edge, atop the dunes that protect the island from...