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The Manila street sweepers were the first to arrive, dressed in their spectacular red gloves, pants and hats and yellow shirts. They were followed by nurses, municipal office employees and flag-waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges...
Madigan, 59, is a press critic. Unlike his print-bound counterparts in other cities, he chastises the profession via the rather quaint medium of radio-for 2½ minutes five days a week over WBBM, the CBS-owned station for which he doubles as political editor. In addition, Madigan is...
The Revolution's most important reform in the last few years has been the increased emphasis on mass organizations: the women's and students' organizations, the trade unions, and the block groups, or Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR's). Under the new Constitution adopted last year, these...
At the block level the municipal representatives are required to periodically convene assemblies and report to their constituency. Representatives are not exempted from their job responsibilities; they are full-time workers as well as part-time public servants. Elections are held without personal campaigning-candidates are allowed to post only...
These angry statements reflect the biting mood of the chief executives of many cities, who are upset with Jimmy Carter for not paying more attention to the problems of urban America. They voiced their complaints in interviews with TIME on the eve of two get-togethers in San Francisco: the...