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...rejecting the idea of any federal aid--either by the executive, through Congress or through the Federal Reserve Bank--Ford has looked not to the nation's concerns but, while facing a tough battle with Ronald Reagan, to the political mileage that could be garnered from New York's plight...
...utter futility of gaining male sympathy for the plight of a raped woman was brought home to me forcefully a year ago when my one-legged sister was raped in her own kitchen by a supposed telephone repairman...
Michaels here seems more interested in the brutalized reaction of the sexually compulsive Byron than in the plight of the executed...
Alexander Goldfarb, a Jewish molecular biologist who recently emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel, was in the Cambridge area on Tuesday to publicize the plight of dissident Soviet scholars...
...Apple could spoil a whole bunch of cities." From Washington, Correspondents David Beckwith and John Stacks cabled reports on the debate over extending federal aid, while Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill and Marta Dorion combed the dense and often deceptive budgetary studies that measure the city's economic plight. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb edited the cover package. Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who has written most of our previous New York crisis stories, outlined long-range reforms to keep the city solvent. Past chairman of his Upper West Side block association, Warner comments: "Part of the solution will come from...