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...prospects in Maryland and Delaware would be very slim. Ford would probably not win these states either, but he would make it a closer fight and might just take New Jersey. Voters in this region consider Reagan to be too conservative, too disdainful of the asphalt agonies of Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia and New York. Ford finally did help keep New York afloat, and he is considered safe and sensible on foreign policy. Party leaders are petrified that Reagan would drag other Republicans to defeat. Says one state chairman: "It would be an absolute disaster for us." Adds New York Republican...
...Tully case, which Sprague took for no fee "as a matter of principle," the hit man claims to have been shortchanged by New Jersey state prosecutors after turning state's evidence against members of the Newark-based Campisi mob. Tully, 36, says the prosecutors promised him at least "one day less" than the lowest Campisi sentence. Instead, he got 15 years while the other gangsters avoided trial and bargained for terms as low as three years...
...Government would be ordered to create jobs in public service and launch public works programs to achieve that end. The goal is noble, and drew support from such witnesses as Bishop James Rausch of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, speaking for the urban poor...
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...Economist Thomas Muller of the Urban Institute in Washington lists nine "municipal danger signals." Among them: substantial long-term outmigration, loss of private employment, high debt service, high unemployment, high tax burden, increasing proportion of low-income population. The cities displaying those danger signals are Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Others that are better off but still in trouble are Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Seattle...