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There were 640 reported incidents of bikes colliding with pedestrians in New York City last year, up from 339 in 1981. Three New York City pedestrians were killed by cyclists in 1986, while nine bikers were killed by motorists. "They are like roaches," complains Anita Sockol, who was crossing Lexington Avenue in June when she was floored by a speeding cyclist. She suffered a broken hip and wrist, and now limps. "They come at you from all sides," she adds...
...line between a routine consumer complaint and a personal problem of soap-opera complexity can be as thin as newsprint. When Don Sockol of the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Action Line tried to help a women's softball team find money to pay for $350 worth of warmup jackets after the sponsor backed out, Sockol ended up mediating a personality conflict between the coach and the sponsor, who agreed to return. Sockol also helped heal a festering labor dispute at a local mill when he got union leaders to talk to management officials about who would...
...Sockol wrote ". . . . the time may not be far off when the Government will require the colleges to turn over the membership lists of all political organizations . . . (and) we are unwilling to jeopardize the futures of our members by submitting their names to the Dean's office...
...Sockol's letter was written to explain to Dean Watson that the John Reed Club had not gone "underground" or dissolved. According to the letter, "neither alternative describes the real situation...
...Sockol stated that "in time such as these, when widespread hysteria infringes upon the rights of minorities, it is essential that people realize the importance of maintaining an objective view. The only way this objectivity can be preserved . . . is if the minorities themselves are allowed to speak out. . . . If that end can be accomplished only by waiving the membership-list requirement, then we feel such action should be taken...