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...more and more homeowners are bitterly learning, the Achilles' heel in the family housing budget may not be mortgage payments or heating costs or even that unexpected leak in the roof, but property taxes. Such taxes have risen an average of 76% since 1970, and 136% since 1967. The spiral has been caused in part by expansion of local public services, but more by the enormous inflation-sparked increases in the wages and benefits of teachers, policemen and firemen, and even the maintenance of local roads. Some examples...
Carter redeems a promise -but the memos leak...
...tundra and two ponds before technicians could shut down the line and begin repairs. As it happened, the line had just resumed limited operation after a ten-day shutdown caused by the most serious of its start-up accidents. At Pumping Station 8, 38 miles from Fairbanks, a pipeline leak led to an explosion that killed one worker and injured five others. Interior Department officials last week concluded that poor training and a mixed-up chain of command were the causes of the PS 8 tragedy. Said an investigator: "Three or four people did some really dumb things...
WATERGATE LEAK. In the 19th century U.S. Supreme Court Justices talked openly about impending decisions, but in recent years the court has shrouded its decision-making process with an almost impenetrable secrecy. The purpose, its members say, is to encourage a frank and free interchange of ideas. Even staff members are barred from the Justices' conferences. So there was considerable embarrassment inside the pillared courthouse after National Public Radio Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 33, revealed that the court had tentatively decided, 5 to 3, to reject Watergate cover-up-conviction petitions filed by John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell...
Harvard's vaunted sailing fleets sprang a leak last weekend, as the men puffed to mediocre finishes in a pair of away meets, while the women fought a losing battle against the wind and rain to finish third in the Sloop Shrew Trophy regatta in Cambridge...