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...Pension funds are indeed running short in many cities, but the contractual commitment to pay the pensions remains. High pensions and other fringe benefits have, in part, forced New York City into its continual flirtation with municipal bankruptcy. The city has long had a cozy relationship with its police, firemen's and sanitationmen's unions. But last week even New York's militant unions faced up to reality: 67 of them, representing 161,000 of the city's 247,000 employees, accepted a two-year, "no cost" contract that provides only for modest cost-of-living...
...kind of violence he intended to stop. On the night of May 19, Manley recalled, in what has become known as the "Orange Street Massacre," a gang seeking vengeance for the stabbing of one of its members set fire to a tenement house. With gunfire the gang held firemen at bay and the occupants inside the burning building. Eight children and three adults died in the fire...
Harry Selig, still beaming, was talking about The Hundred Club, an organization he founded to help widows of policemen and firemen in Massachusetts. The organization now has 2100 members, each of whom pay dues of $250 a year; and whenever a policeman or fireman dies, the club gives the widow $2,500 in cash and $10,000 in scholarships for the kids or other assistance...
...today affirmative action also means the imposition of racial, sexual and ethnic quotas. It now includes, for example, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s order that one black schoolteacher be hired for every new white teacher until a certain percentage of Boston schoolteachers are black. It includes quotas for firemen and policemen, even though hiring standards had to be lowered to meet the required percentages. Affirmative action quotas now apply in occupations ranging from construction labor...
...instigator of these changes-all of which were in the spirit of Vatican decrees-was the parish's new pastor, Father Frederic Harrer, now 56. Nonetheless, the new look, especially the crucifix, jolted St. Ignatius' parishioners, many of them policemen, firemen and other civil servants. Some simply quit attending Mass. "I see a lot of faces not around any more" says one parishioner. But most of those who remained came to accept-even favor-the new church interior and other innovations. "When all the changes started I was kind of confused and disillusioned at times," says Public School...