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...scheme has naturally aroused the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, but their distress pales beside that of the city's oil establishment. The oilmen are upset not because the city plans to drill in Memorial Park but because of the way Houston's mayor, Fred Hofheinz, is going about...
Presumably all would have been well except that the more he thought about it, the more strongly Mayor Hofheinz felt that the city was getting the short end of the spoils. As a result, Brownco withdrew its proposal last month, and Houston's city council flabbergasted the oil community by deciding to launch a court action to claim oil and gas rights in the park for the city. Fumed a lawyer for a major oil company: "It's a government takeover, pure and simple...
...announcement, coming after days of massive demonstrations, may represent a compromise, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday. Hua, a leader from Mao's home province, is the chairman's personal choice but was appointed to his original position by Chou...
...crisis on its management, the Government cannot let the city go broke. He added: "After all the foreign aid that we've sent abroad and the billions that we spent in Viet Nam, I don't see why Washington can't help out New York." Houston Mayor Fred Hofheinz believes that "cities that are living within their means should not have to pay taxes to bail out cities that are not fiscally responsible." Still, he reluctantly favors federal help for New York because the city "has been forced to solve problems created elsewhere in many cases...
...rates 30%. To improve Houston's mass-transit system, Hofheinz purchased a private bus company, and has been laboring to enlarge and upgrade the city's police and fire departments. Once a month Hofheinz fields phone calls on television to answer whatever questions his constituents may want...