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...also built up O'Hare Airport and erected convention hall on the Chicago lakefront despite the protests of conservationists. He floated a $113 million bond issue, of which only $20 million we ?? to slum clearance. "But since the civil leade?? downtown merchants, and newspaper editors?? not live in the slums," says Royko, "it was not ?? sort of inequity that would bother them...
...Ordered the District of Columbia to pay for gas, water and electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents already living a marginal existence in substandard housing face a cutoff of gas, water and electricity," he wrote, "the municipality has a duty to exercise its inherent power...
...Anarchic Slum. With the I.R.A. Provisionals bent on escalating warfare -against Protestants, the British troops and even the Marxist-oriented members of the "official" I.R.A.-London faced some difficult decisions. The British could round up terrorist leaders and intern them under the Special Powers Act, but this might swing the Catholic moderates to the militant cause. The British could withdraw their troops, but then there would be no buffer between Protestants and Catholics. Or London could impose direct rule from Westminster, but this, too, would unite the Catholics and lead to greater violence...
...week's end, as Prime Minister lames Chichester-Clark flew to London to discuss the deteriorating situation with Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, Belfast was rapidly becoming one great anarchic slum. The "terrible beauty" that, in the words of Poet William Butler Yeats, characterized the 1916 Easter Rebellion has become in 1971 a terror without beauty...
...Shimbun, Nader was lionized wherever he went. In return he made front-page news for his hosts. He lectured to S.R.O. crowds and held a sharp televised debate with a vice president of New Japan Steel on the subject of corporate spending to control pollution. He declared that one slum district ought to be cleared as a ''pollution-intense" area and encouraged the Japanese to speak up more for consumer protection. "Citizenship in almost every country," he told his hosts, "is as primitive as physics was in the days of Archimedes...