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Now Moscow's policy has shifted back from one of limited leniency to one of limited suppression. Emigration to Israel has been steadily cut back. Last week, in the Leningrad municipal court where the earlier trials were held, nine more Jews loosely linked with the group that planned the...
The most confused polluters in America are the owners of the nation's estimated 1,500,000 pleasure boats. They contribute less than .07% of all sewage spilled into U.S. waterways, a drop in the slop bucket compared with the daily deluge from archaic municipal "treatment" plants, not to...
Risking Explosion. Many of New York's pleasure-boaters argue that they simply cannot obey the law as it is now being interpreted, and many law-enforcement officials agree. They are anxiously awaiting a court test of the confusing statute. In some craft, owners claim, installation of a holding...
IN their desperate search for cold cash, officials of financially strapped cities have lately been offering much apocalyptic prophecy about the impending bankruptcy of municipal governments (see THE NATION). Cities have reached the limit of their taxing powers, they insist, and the Federal Government must rush to their rescue. Touring...
One of the major problems is that municipal governments depend on property taxes, mainly from real estate, for an average of 85% of the money that they raise locally. This year these governments will collect some $37 billion in property taxes, up from $22.6 billion in 1965. But the property...