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CITIES. Big-city mayors who oppose interference by their state governments will be given approval power over state-run programs. In addition, cities will receive $1 billion directly from Washington to clean up decayed areas; they will also get $200 million to improve public transport...
...captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction. Noting the similarities to the kidnaping last September of Industrialist Hanns...
...forced relocation and nationalization have pushed Tanzania's economy toward bankruptcy. A lack of consumer goods has encouraged well-organized smuggling; huge quantities of Tanzanian coffee, tea, cotton and cattle clandestinely find their way to free markets in neighboring Kenya. Peasants who have to rely on the state-run distribution network spend days carting their harvests to central crop-collection centers. Once there, they often camp for weeks, sleeping atop bales of cotton or mounds of corn, waiting for cash payments to arrive from Dar es Salaam...
...vast, much-publicized Billy Graham crusade like those that have drawn millions of people throughout the non-Communist world. The audiences on the hillside and in subsequent overflow church meetings were made up of devout Protestants, not the general public. To make sure of that, Hungary's state-run media carried no advance notices of the gatherings...
...derived partly from the student rebellion in the spring of 1968, when young radicals took to the streets to demand abolition of the traditional admissions process that favored the well-schooled children of the middle and upper classes. Bowing to the students' pressure, the government threw open its state-run universities to anyone wishing to enroll. The sole requirements: a yearly tax of $70 and, for foreign students, a working knowledge of Italian. Since then the number of foreigners has swelled to some 50,000, adding to the swarms of working-class students taking advantage of the new opportunity...