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...forget the other side of the picture. There are more people productively at work in America earning a decent living with adequate food, shelter and with real freedom of choice about the way they lead their lives than there are or ever have been in any major country in the world. Furthermore, this country remains a republic and a democracy and has made a decent and encouraging start at erasing the racism and other forms of discrimination that have so long made a mockery of our pretensions to equal opportunity. I firmly believe that, with goodwill...
...Congressmen would just as soon lower their sights to an easier target: a minimum tax on corporations and individuals. It would appeal to voters outraged by large corporations that pay no taxes (128 out of 250 large corporations in one study), and by wealthy individuals whose lawyers manage to shelter their income altogether (some 9,000 millionaires). A minimum tax of 20% for individuals and 15% for businesses is already on the books, but it is so riddled with exceptions that it covers only 0.3% of U.S. companies and 0.1% of individuals. Reagan's plan would ensure that both corporations...
...congenial block parties. Ronald Merriweather, whose home escaped damage, looked at the smouldering ruins of other houses and said, "It looks just like a war zone. The neighborhood was here and now it's gone." Families that had evacuated supposedly for a day found themselves refugees in the emergency shelter that the Red Cross had established in the parish hall of St. Carthage Roman Catholic Church, or staying in dormitory rooms at city universities. When they returned to look at their homes, or what was left of them, many wept...
Mayor W. Wilson Goode immediately accepted full responsibility for everything that happened. He was prompt to pledge, in a visit to the emergency shelter at St. Carthage Church, that the city would rebuild the houses lost in the fire, and at no cost to the owners. He promised to make the neighborhood residents "whole again." With perhaps too much optimism, he promised that reconstruction would be completed by Christmas. Goode insisted that the fire, one of the worst in Philadelphia's history, was simply the result of an accident, not bad judgment. According to the mayor, Police Commissioner Gregore...
...latest outbreak of fighting also promises to swell the stream of refugees fleeing into Sudan, which is itself suffering through a wasting famine. Almost 850,000 Ethiopians have crowded into Sudanese camps where, often, there is little shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad...