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...Hamtramck itself was thrown into question. Already burdened by a shrinking, aging population, the city suddenly faced the loss of $2.3 million in annual tax revenues-almost half the general fund budget. The municipal payroll has been slashed from around 500 to 200, leaving just 43 policemen and 40 firemen. "They used to take up a whole block on Joseph Campau marching in parades," recalls Mayor Kozeran...
...true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted the city's economy. A walkout by oil delivery truck drivers caused a gasoline shortage. For the first time, the city's firemen voted to authorize a strike. And the school system, the nation's third largest, was on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger of closing. The "city that works" had never been so close to a breakdown...
Shortly before midnight on Nov. 10, tankers on a 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train, bound from Windsor to Toronto, jumped the tracks. Three explosions from cars carrying propane sent flames that towered into the sky and rattled windows 30 miles away. Firemen at the scene sniffed acrid fumes leaking from one tanker that contained 81 tons of liquefied chlorine; if that car exploded, its contents could turn into a modern equivalent of the deadly fog at Ypres. Within hours, provincial authorities ordered the largest evacuation in Canadian history; with surpassing smoothness, and little panic, most of the city...
...putting a Concord compact body on a four-wheel Jeep-like drive train, the company has produced a new car that gets about 16 m.p.g. and sells for some $7,000. Name: the Eagle. It rides easily, stops quickly on icy roads, and is designed for doctors, firemen, people who drive snowplows and others in rough climes. AMC planned to build 50,000 in this model year, but reception has been so strong that there is talk of aiming toward...
...Firemen, fearing that the church's gutted steeple would collapse, cordoned off the area before a crane could knock the steeple down safely...