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Like other cities, San Antonio faces cutbacks under the Reagan Administration's new budget. The city's economy still benefits from two important sources: Government spending generated, in part, by the large military installations at nearby Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston; and federal funds for hiring municipal workers and low-level workers in San Antonio's important tourist industry. Cisneros feels he must wean San Antonio from its dependence on Government money. He also concedes that the costs may end up being borne by the Hispanic working people who helped elect...
...understand some of us have never used the word 'sir' in our lives," he continues. "In some parts of the country, it's quite a tradition. In the southern areas especially, you're brought up with it. When I was at Lackland AFB, it was always the guys from New York and Boston who had the most trouble learning to say 'sir.' But we must try--an important part of our training is the utilization of the terms, 'Yes sir' and 'No sir,'" he says, adding that even for those cadets who choose college or civilian employment instead...
...come in handy someday--Henderson says he hopes many of the cadets will go on to Air Force careers. If they do, they'll be able to skip basic training. "You'll be going in with two stripes on your shoulder," Henderson tells them. "When I was at Lackland, a man with one stripe was a king...
Editorial Page Editor Robert L. Bartley, 42, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, encourages his five writers to develop their own sources and even break news on occasion. For example, the agreement under which the deposed Shah of Iran left Texas' Lackland Air Force Base for Panama last year was first disclosed in a Journal editorial...
...Force statistics show that an astonishing 86% of enlisted personnel and 51% of officers moonlight at civilian jobs or have spouses who work. Typical is Sergeant Joe McCrary, a 24-year-old marksmanship instructor at Lackland Air Force Base. During most of his six years in the Air Force he has held second jobs; his latest was bartending in a VFW hall...