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...influential voice on military policy. Even two blacks, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray of Pennsylvania and Missouri Congressman Alan Wheat, have joined. Their presence indicates that discontent with what is often regarded as weak and divided leadership by the National Committee has spread far beyond the ranks of Sunbelt whites...
...other statistics we could use." The authors also devised their own formulas. To gauge climate, for example, they developed a complex scheme relating relative humidity to seasonal variations in temperature. To update the 1980 census, they turned to such sources as IRS change-of-address lists. One discovery: the Sunbelt may have oversold its desirability. Address changes for the past two years show % the Northeast has been gaining population while the West has been losing it. Conclude the authors: "Not only did our (older) cities not die, they are undergoing a rejuvenation unparalleled in our history...
Some municipalities have tried to drive out their homeless. In Phoenix, a Sunbelt mecca for jobless Northerners, the city in the past two years has closed three soup kitchens and torn down ten welfare hotels. The city still has 3,000 street people. In Santa Cruz, Calif., last summer, there were 19 attacks on homeless people, known locally as trolls because they live under bridges. Many of the assaults were attributed to teen-agers, some of whom later sported TROLL BUSTER T shirts...
...generally acknowledged to have been the L.I.R.R.'s nadir, a period of such egregious discomfort that at least a small part of the growth of the Sunbelt can be traced to the conditions on the commuter line. The railroad was 150 last year, and there are definite signs of improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster...
Elsewhere in the Sunbelt, farm woes have cast a cloud over otherwise sunny economies. In Georgia, some 60% of the loans issued by the Farmers Home Administration are delinquent. "We're not out of the woods yet," warns Larry Snipes, a statistician for the Georgia Crop Reporting Service. "In fact, I'm not even sure that we've seen the worst." In Texas, farmers went out of business last year at a rate of more than 100 a week. State officials see an equally bleak...