Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew may have consolidated his position with conservative Republicans so well that dumping him would create more problems than it would solve; or by then he may appear to be an overwhelming liability with liberal Republicans and independents. Agnew is cheerful enough about his situation. Before making a Honolulu speech last week, he remarked: "Any rumors that Richard Nixon will not be on the ticket with me in 1972 are totally without foundation...
...Arkansas attorney general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu bus lines. The union accepted Fasi's "very attractive proposal." The money will be used to augment bus-driver salaries...
Fasi's gambit has some intriguing consequences. If his contribution were considered "personal use" of campaign funds, it would be subject to federal income tax. As it is, the Internal Revenue Service in Honolulu considers Fasi's $40,000 to come under a regulation that makes campaign contributions nontaxable. The bus drivers may not have to pay income tax on their shares of the money, either, since legally it is a gift. Federal planners have worked out any number of ways to subsidize mass transit, but chances are that Fasi's dodge never occurred to them...
...same place at almost the same time may have wondered whether all those trips were necessary. Alone among nations, the U.S. allows a flock of its airlines to compete on routes that can barely pay off for one. Probably the worst case of overcompetition is the Los Angeles-Honolulu route, covered by eight lines...
...asking for further fare increases of 4% to 10% on domestic flights. In addition, the airlines may well seek to drop some competing flights that take off at the same times, over the same routes, with mostly empty seats. Pan Am already has cut its West Coast-to-Honolulu flights from 80 a week to 40, and fired 378 men from its flight crews, since the CAB authorized six competing carriers to fly the same route. Last week Pan Am announced that on Sept. 16 it will drop the New York-to-Los Angeles portion of its New York-Honolulu...