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Until the shutdown, the 201 buses of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority served the city and seven municipalities. The buses were also the vehicle of desegregation for 1,300 of some 5,000 schoolchildren who take them every day. Last October the transit authority tried to close the yearly $1 million deficit by cutting back weekday service and eliminating Sunday service. In addition, it raised the fare from 35? to 80? in just one year. Then it turned to the Alabama legislature, but the lawmakers were not quick enough in finding new solutions. With funds dwindling, the transit authority...
Said State Representative Bill Cabaniss: "They are putting pressure on us. They could keep the buses running for a few more weeks." The legislature, in fact, is caught in a city-suburb battle. A year ago, the transit authority pleaded with Jefferson County legislators for a countywide half-cent sales tax, with proceeds estimated at $8 million a year. But some of the area's more affluent towns wanted no transit system and no transit...
DIED. Saul K. Padover, 75, educator, historian and leading authority on both Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx (although he espoused the political philosophy of Jefferson only), who painstakingly re-created the emotional and intellectual lives of his subjects in such books as A Jefferson Profile (1956) and Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography (1978); after a stroke; in New York City...
...document they drafted in Philadelphia in 1787 was immune to change. Not only did Article V authorize amendments by Congress and the states, but it also promised that whenever two-thirds of the state legislatures wanted to summon a new convention, they could rewrite the whole Constitution. Thomas Jefferson thought some such revision was needed once in every generation. "Alterations may at any time be effected ..." added Alexander Hamilton in the 85th and last of the commentaries and cajolings that make up The Federalist. "The will of the requisite number would at once bring the matter to a decisive issue...
...Jefferson, who valued the press, could turn apoplectic when he considered the newspapers of his day. Said he: "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors...