Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abadan, meanwhile, was anything but subdued. The Rex tragedy unleashed a flood of bitterness, aimed equally at the arsonists who ignited the theater and the incompetent local authorities whose bungling had surely contributed to the death toll. Witnesses reported that nearly half an hour elapsed before the first fire fighters arrived at the burning theater. Once they got there, they discovered that none of the hydrants were working. The mobile water tanks they brought to the scene ran dry before the fire could be brought under control. The screams of the dying carried into the streets as would-be rescuers...
...City News (circ. 425,000), launched by Christopher Hagedorn, who publishes six local weeklies, bears a faint resemblance to the struck News...
...fold the ailing Post and use the strike paper as the basis for a new, nonunion daily. More likely, both Murdoch and his allies at the Times want merely to make sure that their distribution networks keep busy and that New Yorkers retain the habit of reading local newspapers?which many abandoned during the 114-day New York newspaper strike...
...about their taxes than about their unions' legislative goals. In California, blue-collar unionized homeowners last June voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 13, in full knowledge that the 57% cut in property taxes that it called for would wipe out the jobs of many of their brother unionists working in local governments...
...disputes to arbitration, rather than striking, and to make arbitration compulsory for cops, firemen and other public-safety workers. Instead of simply decrying the tax revolt, as Meany does, Wurf calls for reforms: cuts in property taxes for low-and middle-income homeowners, higher and more progressive state and local income taxes to reduce the revenue loss...