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Those who elected the radicals to the Berkeley City Council had a vision. "What we want is more room to build a revolutionary society," said one student, "a society with more equitable tax distribution, with stricter rent controls, with new low-cost housing, with more parks and child-care centers." Yet, two-and-a-half years after the initiation of the radical experiment, the vision is gone. Berkeley remains the same. And so does Cambridge. Here the vision extends no further than a reading cubicle in Lamont Library
...just a few: the need for city day-care centers, replacement of property and sales taxes with a progressive income tax, rent control, a referendum on the as yet unexpected 18-year-old vote, a Vietnam peace initiative, the construction of low-cost housing, a city affirmative action program, stricter antipollution legislation, prosecution of war researchers at the university, the elimination of sexist books from school libraries, guaranteed adequate severance pay to workers in firms leaving Berkeley to escape unionization, the construction of bicycle paths, youth hostels and more parks, and even the addition of long cords on all public...
...boom is somewhat paradoxically drawing strength from a new, more socially responsible public attitude toward land. States and localities are imposing stricter zoning laws and environmental standards, punitive taxes on speculators, even some outright bans on development (see story page 94). The new moves are long overdue, but they have the side effect of making land development ever costlier, reducing the supply of what real estate men call "buildable" land...
...your life," said one of the narcs, who wears a beard and long hair. "They loved us, as a matter of fact. They said we gave off good vibes." Out on $200,000 bail, Abbie could get from 15 years to life under New York's new stricter drug laws...
...halfway round the world. A second reason for direct investment is that if the European trade deficit with Japan grows much larger, the Common Market may simply clamp on quotas or demand so-called voluntary restraints to keep Japanese goods out. Already those restrictions on Japanese products are much stricter in Europe than in the U.S. Says Michel Carré, a Brussels management consultant: "The Japanese are welcome abroad as investors, but not as pushers of Japanese goods...