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...telex operators in New York. Dang is one of TIME's four Vietnamese employees who were evacuated with their families during the last days of the Indochina war. All together, 37 Vietnamese sponsored by TIME have come to the U.S. Now living in Connecticut, New Jersey and California, they are learning to cope with such all-American problems as commuting, job hunting and matching budgets with sales at the supermarket. Budgets are second nature to Mme. Nga Thi Tran, who had handled finances for our Saigon bureau since 1968. Employed in our New York accounting office, she is hopefully...
...already suffering most from the rising cost of imported oil. Many East Coast utilities have stopped accepting neV gas customers and are sending warnings to industrial users to expect drastic curtailments of supplies. Many large gas users are converting to fuel oil at a vastly higher cost. In New Jersey, John Kean, president of the Elizabethtown Gas Co., warns of "the gas industry's Pearl Harbor this winter...
...eager freshmen Democrats who took office in January, the failure of Congress has been disillusioning and frustrating, particularly since many argue that the President lacks a real legislative program of his own. "He just keeps saying, 'No, no, no,' "declares New Jersey's Andrew Maguire. Last week TIME correspondents followed four of the chastened freshmen Congressmen as they toured their districts and tried to explain to their voters-and themselves-what went wrong during their first six months in Washington. The reports...
...York's problems are a memento mori to other state and local governments. Last week neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania were suffering through difficulties that, though less acute than New York's, reflected common themes-an inability to compromise, a breakdown in the eleventh-hour bargaining that used to work when governments, unions and taxpayers came to the brink. On a more fundamental level, the problems suggested that states and cities are more and more coming up against very hard choices: What public services must be dispensed with or cut back if there is simply not the money...
Unpopular Idea. Painful money issues also absorbed New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne who has labored for months to get the state legislature to approve a state income tax that he says is necessary to finance public education. The income tax is a disastrously unpopular idea in New Jersey. The recession has hit the state especially hard-unemployment is 13%. State revenues have fallen off, and Byrne's projected budget for this year contained a deficit estimated at $384 million...