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...FREEZE. The town of Crystal City, Texas, is not a typical case-but it is an instructive one. For more than two weeks, the 8,000 citizens of Crystal City have been doing without natural gas. It was cut off after the town refused to pay its supplier, the Lo-Vaca Gathering Co., $800,000 in back bills...
When Crystal City refused to pay the higher rates, Lo-Vaca terminated its contract and filed suit for payment. During the 30 months that the case was being decided, the town continued to get gas without paying for it. Last June the court ordered it to pay up. Insisted Lo-Vaca Attorney Joseph Jaworski (son of Leon, of Watergate and now Koreagate fame): "It's time to stop this legal circus. Other customers of Lo-Vaca want to know why they should have to pay full price for gas and Crystal City doesn...
...point Mayor Benavides got the federal Community Services Administration to promise financial assistance, but the agency reneged after other hard-pressed Texas towns flooded it with similar requests for funds. Lo-Vaca has offered to consider turning the gas back on if Crystal City would make a 20% down payment on what it owes. But city officials claim they do not have that much in the treasury. Meanwhile, Crystal City does not burn...
...refused to consider any significant tax increase. The house at first agreed and approved a budget with across-the-board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them a lO?-per-gal. soft-drink tax. The senate scuttled that one too. No matter. Thomson announced that he would veto any budget with a soda-pop tax. Furious representatives, saying their work had been done, recessed the house. Thomson called an emergency session for this week...
...island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance, it is not audible: Tolo cannot warble a note...