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...representative of each enforcement agency-with the exception of the FBI, which preferred to operate from its own office near by-into a single headquarters, and encouraged them to work across jurisdictional boundaries. The result has been indictments against public officials ranging from cops on the beat to Newark's former mayor, Hugh Addonizio, Jersey City Mayor Thomas Whelan and Hudson County Democratic Leader John V. Kenny, one of New Jersey's most powerful political bosses. In the process, Bartels has presided over the touchy coordination of ten sometimes jealously competing federal law-enforcement agencies...
...have been conflicts and breakdowns in communications. A carefully laid plan to uncover the top operators in a police theft ring, for example, was sabotaged when one of the agencies arrested a minor figure prematurely. Overall, however, the results of the Strike Force's work have been encouraging. Newark, scarred by riots three years ago, has been a center of the investigations, and Bartels hopes that indictments there will restore some of the confidence lost over years of political corruption. "You can't begin to understand the riot until you understand the extent of the corruption there...
...result, Chicagoans next year face a staggering 17.5% increase in real estate taxes. Buffalo and Syracuse recently declared the largest property tax hikes in their histories, and Newark got permission to collect a 1% levy on payrolls. San Francisco will begin taxing payrolls .5% if its law clears the courts. These cities are relatively fortunate; other cities are virtually desperate. Under state laws, both Omaha and Detroit are already taxing to the limit of their authority and could not pass tax increases even if they wanted to. Sooner or later, says former Pittsburgh City Councilman J. Craig Kuhn, "all cities...
...last week's meeting in Chicago of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, E. Douglas Dean presented the results of an unusual experiment. Dean, a research associate at the Newark College of Engineering, which is a center for studies of extrasensory perception, conducted a test of 67 high executives, mostly corporate presidents. He asked them to choose any number from zero to 9. They had to make the choice 100 different times, always picking a one-digit number. When the executives had finished their part of the experiment, an IBM computer, which was programmed to operate...
...raving desire. A quick drink only magnifies the pangs. The dinner gong bongs and I meet my tablemates: we loathe each other on sight. One sucks on dummy cigarettes. Another is clearly going to have no trouble quitting: he is too loaded to light a cigarette. Says Hy, a Newark businessman: "We are all compulsive suicides...