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...amount of rent a landlord can charge) ruined the city," Sullivan says. "Properties have not been kept up, there have been absentee landlords and all the rest because people could not afford to maintain what they owned." But, after a decade, he concedes it would be disastrous to scrap the program overnight, favoring instead a gradual program that would decontrol apartments as they became vacant. "It would have to be eased out very slowly," Sullivan says. Since the switch of a single council seat to the Independent camp would allow the abolition of rent control, Sullivan is campaigning as hard...
...campaign genre. Incumbent Democrat Robert Morgan was portrayed as a man who had "been taken in by the ultra-left-wing McGovern liberals in the U.S. Senate." In fact, Morgan was among the most conservative Democrats in the Senate. East's ads charged that Morgan had voted "to scrap the B-1 bomber." Morgan, in a 39-page postcampaign rebuttal to the East ads, said he had voted twice for the B1, voting against only the last-ditch effort to build five prototypes as a bailout for the manufacturer...
During last year's presidential campaign, Reagan said that he would scrap the Synthetic Fuels Corporation that the Carter Administration had designed to administer the multibillion-dollar program. Once in office, Reagan fired John Sawhill, Carter's nominee to head the corporation, but he decided to keep the agency alive. In Sawhill's place, Reagan appointed Edward Noble, an Oklahoma oilman who is skeptical about synfuels. Says Noble: "I have come to run a very hard-nosed, responsible operation that will require a lot from the private sector. I am not going to shoot the mule that...
Again and again, during the two days and two nights of storytelling, the small miracle happens. There is a perfect gesture, an eloquent word, a scrap of song or dance, and the imagination soars. "Storytellers," said that old Celtic taleteller William Butler Yeats, "make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear, and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels...
...then, at week's end, President Reagan's special envoy Philip Habib suddenly announced in Jerusalem that a cease-fire had been established. Emerging from a talk with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Habib read a message from a scrap of paper: "I have reported to President Reagan that as of 13:30 hours local time, July 24, 1981, all hostile military action between Lebanese and Israeli territory, in either direction, will cease." Begin then followed with a comment of his own: "The government of Israel endorses the statement just made by Mr. Habib, the emissary...