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Laggard States. The main problem, asserts the Nader group, is the federal program's failure to control industrial effluents. They account for at least 50% of the oxygen-consuming wastes handled by municipal water-treatment plants, many of which are thus overloaded. They also include very dangerous contaminants (arsenic...
Skirting Bankruptcy. All the familiar ills of the city play a part in the decisions to move: the housing shortage, spastic transit facilities, increasing air pollution, drug addiction, burglaries and muggings, low-caliber public schools, public-be-damned municipal employees. Probably the most common complaint is the astronomical (and still...
Even with the defections, Mayor John Lindsay's city runs no immediate risk of losing its standing as the nation's corporate capital. Of the 500 largest industrial companies, as measured in last May's FORTUNE list, 125 have their headquarters in Manhattan. The growing exodus, however...
"We have given the world a lesson," Salvador Allende Gossens declared jubilantly last week. Five months ago Allende became the world's first Marxist head of state to win office through a free election. Last week, in nationwide municipal contests, he won a bigger share of the vote and...
No Arrogance. The results obviously strengthened Allende, who had said earlier that he would have been content with 43% of the vote. But it was unlikely that the outcome would cause him to increase the tempo of his reform program. He does not have a majority in Congress, where the...