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...East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Corruption, patronage and inefficiency, at times the hallmark of city government, have given way to an administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hard hit by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected by rent control, and landlords, increasingly, are guaranteed fair profit. Even the thorny problem of desegregation seems to have been handled smoothly...
...these perils are apparent to any shore-bound summer tourist. On Massachusetts' Cape Cod, four-wheel-drive vehicles have deeply rutted broad stretches of beach. On New York's Long Island and the New Jersey shore, vacation cottages overcrowd once pristine dunescapes. From those states southward, the Atlantic shore, with scattered exceptions, seems destined to become a stretch of boardwalk and pizza-parlor tackiness...
...reality, all of Poland had been shaken. The Lenin Shipyard strike had transformed a series of scattered protests over rising meat prices into a workers' crusade for sweeping economic and political reforms. From its nerve center in Gdansk, the movement quickly swept the Baltic coast, spread southward, and finally reached deep into the coal-mining heartland of Silesia. Before the strikes had ended, some 500,000 workers at over 500 enterprises had joined the peaceful but crippling revolt. The work stoppages had cost hundreds of millions of dollars, pushing the country to the brink of disaster and testing...
...noted that the Soviet Union was ARTHUR GRACE thrusting southward, both directly into Afghanistan and indirectly through Viet Nam and Cambodia...
...long as the rebels are still fighting, most U.S. and British military analysts doubt that the aging, innately conservative Soviet leadership would contemplate an extension of the invasion eastward into Pakistan or southward to the Persian Gulf. The Carter Administration, however, can hardly afford to take a chance on that. Accordingly, it dispatched a series of official missions to Southwest Asia and the Middle East last week in an effort to gain support for the President's regional security proposals...