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Last week the counter-counterrevolution began. The town board of Hempstead, L.I., unanimously banned pay air from the town's 500 stations. Said Presiding Supervisor Alphonse D'Amato: "Free air is almost a tradition in America. I don't think there is a place in the capitalist system to charge...
Ignacio L. Götz Hempstead...
...West Hempstead...
...obdurate truths of political life in the '70s is that most suburbs ringing the nation's decaying cities are adamantly against low-cost housing. They fear that such housing would bring an influx of the poor, including minorities, into their communities. The town of Hempstead, L.I. (pop. more than 800,000), for example, which adjoins New York City, has been denied $758,000 in federal aid because it did not propose an acceptable low-income housing program. Admits Francis Purcell, the town's presiding supervisor: "Most of the people in our communities are viciously and violently opposed...
...West Hempstead...