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...years ago, when a series of News stories persuaded the New York legislature to put a freeze on future increases in state pension-plan membership. In a recent issue of [Morel the journalism review, Financial Commentator Louis Rukeyser rated the News' editorials on the city's financial plight as more cogent and less partisan than those of the Times and the Post, which he felt too often got bogged down in anti-banker diatribes. Says O'Neill: "We try to practice what I call 'preventive journalism.' Newspapers can no longer stand by and record crises...
...denial of a visa is a "flagrant violation" of the principles of last August's European Security Conference accord at Helsinki, where the U.S.S.R. agreed to "facilitate wider travel" for its citizens. Still, Sakharov was characteristically far more concerned with dissenters in prison than with his own plight. At the same tune, some brave Russians put themselves in jeopardy by supporting Sakharov with a petition denouncing the authorities for refusing to let him attend the Oslo award ceremony. It was signed by 72 people−and not all of them were known dissidents. According to a study published last...
...homeland, Russia, undergoing radical social change. But it is more complicated than that. First of all, there are three Gorkys simultaneously onstage, a romantic boy (John Gallogly), an idealistic young man (Douglas Clark) and an old and skeptical observer (Philip Baker Hall) who is still deeply moved by the plight of the Russian people...
...minority admissions drop steadily in spite of the efforts of a handful of ever-dedicated Third World students and diminished commitment from the administration allows fewer students from poor socio-economic conditions admittance; mountains of time and concern are heaped upon an affair with as much relevance to the plight of Black people as what color tie Derek Bok wore yesterday...
...plight of New York could give cities a bad name. To avoid that kind of guilt by association, the justly proud city of Wichita has launched a hard-to-crash National Alliance of Financially Responsible Local Governments. Membership standards require that a city actually collect money before it is counted as revenue, indulge in no long-term debt to finance current operating and maintenance expenses, and, of course, have its budget in the black. The group's purpose is to see that all the members keep on measuring up, and not incidentally, to have another selling point in marketing...