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Some Atlantans-to the consternation of police and the delight of worldwide TV crews-have come together to form armed vigilante groups. Israel Green, 55, a retired postal worker, set up one such patrol three weeks ago when rumors started circulating that Techwood Homes, a downtown project of over 1,200 apartments, would be next on the killer's agenda. Techwood's "bat patrol" consists of about 50 members ranging in age from 13 to 55, half of whom are women. Most of the patrollers have armed themselves with baseball bats, though some have carried guns. "The patrol...
...Polytechnic of the South Bank, is believed to know more about Rubik's Cube than even Ernö Rubik. Singmaster, whose 60-page Notes on Rubik's "Magic Cube" has gone into five editions, has become an unofficial repository of the puzzle's lore. An English postal engineer wrote him to report that cube playing had reduced his office's efficiency to zero, but that "being a government department, no one noticed." A Whitehall bureaucrat pleaded with him to supply the solution, since the Englishman's entire computer department was working on the puzzle...
...President is asking Congress to reduce future spending for no fewer than 83 programs that benefit workers, businessmen, farmers, students, artists, the elderly, the sick, the poor, passengers on airplanes, trains, subways, buses-just about everybody. He would lower federal support for museums, delay some space-exploration projects, reduce postal subsidies possibly enough to force cancellation of Saturday mail deliveries. He would give states and cities far more authority to decide how to use money sent from Washington for education and health purposes. Yacht owners would have to pay more to use waterways; air travelers higher ticket prices to make...
...Postal Subsidies. Congress created the semi-independent U.S. Postal Service in 1970, expecting that it eventually would become self-sufficient. Instead it kept running deficits, despite frequent hikes of its rates for delivering the mail. Not until last year did Congress insist on cutting its annual subsidy of $920 million by 10%. Now Reagan proposes to take another $632 million from the subsidy in 1982. The initial cuts would mainly affect county post offices and rural deliveries, as well as low-cost mass mailings by charitable institutions and churches. One endangered service: Saturday deliveries...
...goes the list of potential cuts: the black book suggests reductions in federal aid to the arts, in support for public TV, in mass transit, in postal subsidies and in the space program, even though both Reagan and Stockman are ardent space buffs. Not even the most popular federal programs are spared. In the case of Social Security, the Administration would leave basic retirement benefits untouched. But it is considering scrapping the $122 minimum monthly benefit to retirees who have paid very little into the system and payments to students whose parents have died, as well as reductions in disability...