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Meanwhile, Byrne, the Chicago school board and state officials were scrambling to put together an emergency loan package to keep the schools from collapsing. Shut out of the bond market in November because of a poor rating, the educational system faces a shortfall of $459 million by the end of the fiscal year on Aug. 31, 1980. It needs $190 million just to keep going through January...
Again, Byrne's pugnacious style seemed to make the problem worse. She got into a public fight with Illinois Governor James Thompson over whether the state or the city had the ultimate responsibility of financing the schools. Says Jerome Van Gorkom, who was appointed by Byrne to head an oversight committee for the schools: "The situation is not serious; it is desperate...
...generous labor settlements for teachers without knowing how he was going to pay for them. To some extent, he mortgaged the future of the schools to buy short-term labor peace. But he also had the muscle to keep the city going by prying additional aid out of the state legislature. Byrne will have to relearn some of Daley's lessons if the city that works is going to start working again...
...support, the student militants turned their fire on Ghotbzadeh. In Communique 75, they accused him of "talking too much." Said the militants: "The Iranian nation should be ashamed to speak more than necessary to an enemy, particularly a filthy one like America." To hasten his fall from grace, the state-run radio, which until three weeks ago was directed by Ghotbzadeh, praised the students' criticism of him and declared: "There is no room for diplomatic games in our revolution." It was clear warning that Ghotbzadeh may face the same fate as his predecessor, Abolhassan Banisadr, who was fired...
...command of the divided Revolutionary Council. But the situation took a complicating turn when two gunmen assassinated one of Khomeini's close colleagues, Mohammad Mofatteh, dean of Tehran University's College of Theology, and two of Mofatteh's bodyguards. Although an anonymous caller to the state news agency claimed that the killings were committed by a previously unknown terrorist group called P.M., Khomeini and his followers characteristically blamed the assassinations on the U.S. Said the victim's son, Sadegh Mofatteh, 21, a college student: "No matter who pulled the trigger, it was the CIA that engineered...