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...Gladys P. Gifford, a member of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhood's Scheme Z taskforce, describing attempts to offset Scheme z--the 11-story highway interchange slated for construction in east Cambridge--with promises of mass transit funds and extra parks...
They are coming in droves, a tide of migration that does not stop. Every few hours another El Al airliner wings into Ben Gurion airport from transit points in Europe, bringing 2,000 or 3,000 or 3,500 Soviet Jews each day. Since Moscow substantially eased exit rules in late 1989, the wave of immigrants has brought 185,000 Jews to Israel, the most since 1949, when the country was one year old and Holocaust survivors were fleeing the killing grounds of Europe. Before the flood stops, it is expected to deposit 1 million people in Israel...
...else, residing temporarily in the tunnels and doorways between here and there. Some people were uprooted after the War on Poverty was fought to a draw, when their rents went up, their wages went down, and the safety net turned out to be full of holes. Others were in transit from mental asylums that didn't heal them or to halfway houses that didn't exist. Still others were maimed by drug abuse. Communities from coast to coast quietly wished that the living clutter would all go away. Yet during the past 10 years it has only multiplied...
...activists stood up, a transit policeofficer grabbed a protester's shoulder and warnedhim that he was trespassing...
...grammar school dropout, Weinberg built his fortune by buying Baltimore real estate at bargain prices and later investing in transit companies and Hawaiian properties. Weinberg's largesse was not entirely a surprise. During a 1984 visit to Israel, he donated $1 million to buy air conditioners for the country's nursing homes...