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...forced last week to find money to give a raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...
...years, organized labor has tried everything it could think of to crack J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc., the nation's second largest textile maker and citadel of Sunbelt antiunionism. It has used direct organizing campaigns, protests to the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, demonstrations at annual meetings of Stevens stockholders and an attempted nationwide boycott of Stevens products. Nothing has worked. Now the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union is trying a new pressure tactic: isolating Stevens from its friends in the business and financial community. Last week it won a victory of sorts by forcing two Stevens...
...pitch nonetheless?not for new industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
Most figures show that the economies of the Southern and Western states, unlike those of the Northern states (including states in the Great Lakes region), are well recovered from the recent recession. For example, the Sunbelt's unemployment rate has hovered around 6%, while recent Northern rates are approximately 8%. Given the South's attractions for business, including its warmer, less energy-consuming climes and nonunionized labor, the regional imbalance may grow. So increasingly Northern states are looking enviously at one Sunbelt advantage that they believe can be reversed: the hefty portion of federal spending the South receives...
None of that helps Pan Am, which has let its once enormous political power decline while Braniff has developed potency with Carter's Sunbelt constituents. The loss of any international route hurts Pan Am especially because it has no domestic service to supplement its foreign business. The airline pointed out that no department of the Government found any foreign policy reason for denying it the run from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. But the only opinion that counts is the President's, and according to several reports, he traded the award to Braniff for the votes...