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...with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco will be the first to combine all aid programs under one card. Predicts Edwin Sarsfield, the city's social services director: "I think that within three years this will be in use statewide and in the rest of the nation as well...
...redux. Perhaps it is because many people come to San Francisco to flee their pasts. Whatever the reason, a great many San Franciscans are unable to go with the flow. "There's an inordinate number of people with serious mental-health problems," says Social Services Director Edwin Sarsfield. The Zodiac killer, who claims in letters that he murdered 37 people in the '60s and '70s, was never caught. Sara Jane Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White, the baked-potato vendor and former city supervisor, shot...
...Capps was the only fatality, more than 50 others were injured, several seriously. Trucker Howard Abrams, 45, was shot in the chest while unloading his rig in Utah. A trucker in Michigan was wounded in the face by windshield glass when a shotgun blast hit his truck. And Melissa Sarsfield, 14, suffered a fractured skull when a brick bounced off a truck into her family's car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...White House broadside not only kept the Sarsfield's incident alive but drew guffaws from Washington pols. Illinois Republican Robert Michel chortled in a House speech that in one year the Carter Administration had gone from "great expectations to great expectorations...
Aide Hamilton Jordan's celebrated evening at Sarsfield's bar is only the latest episode in a continuing assault on traditional American sensitivities that probably began with Billy Carter. It has included such elements as Sister Ruth's evangelical mission to Porn King Larry Flynt, the Bert Lance affair, Jody Powell's intrigue against Senator Percy...