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...Dade Tax Revolt Committee in Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than the $400 that he intended...
...P.L.O. is also disturbed by the degree to which Arab allies like Syria and Iraq have been preoccupied with their own problems. Moreover, Arafat is thought to have been persuaded that continued Palestinian violence only reinforces Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's contention that the P.L.O. is just a gang of "terrorists" that "no decent government" should talk...
Even so, Carter's handling of the mass firings caused Europeans to cluck in wonder. A high-ranking West German Foreign Ministry official asked: "Is this serious, or is this just a great religious exercise for the soul?" Oslo's middle-roading daily Verdens Gang called the Washington situation a "circus" and a "balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than...
...film takes place in the North Bronx of 1963-a no man's land pockmarked by dilapidated apartment developments. The characters are the Italian American high school kids who belong to the Wanderers, a gang that is forever rumbling with black and Chinese rivals as well as with a grotesque bunch named the Fordham Baldies, led by the enormous Erland van Lidth de Jeude. Between the skirmishes, the movie charts typical teenage rituals. Even the Wanderers must cope, in their own semiverbal way, with parents, love, sex and the prospect of leaving home...
...Linda Manz) are blurred into ambiguity, seem ingly to create an idle air of mystery. By adding portentous references to the Kennedy assassination and the rise of Bob Dylan, Kaufman adds a little gratuitous sociology. The occasional stylization of the movie's violence is equally jarring: the gang members are at times so shrouded by theatrical smoke and shadow that they start to look like the pod people in Kauf man's Invasion of the Body Snatchers...