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...days San Franciscans endured burst water mains, broken-down boilers, overflowing fountains, weed-choked lawns, garbage-strewn streets and a transit stoppage that halted their cable cars and buses. But last week some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry...
...cars were out of sight. Students and the unemployed gathered at access ramps; they offered themselves as passengers at a dollar a head for cars with fewer than three occupants. The buses, meanwhile, ran virtually empty. Of the 90,000 free-ride tickets distributed by the Southern California Rapid Transit District to lure new riders during the first two weeks of April, only 315 were used...
...financial problems. Yet one momth after beginning his second term, Rizzo discovered a budget deficit of $80 million and proclaimed a "fiscal emergency." Since then he has asked for 20% increases in city payroll taxes, boosts of up to 50% in real estate taxes, and a raise in transit fares from 350 to 500. He has urged layoffs of 500 to 1,000 city employees...
...decision last month to close his border with Rhodesia and proclaim a "state of war" deprived landlocked Rhodesia of vital rail links to the sea, and is forcing it into a virtual siege economy. But the move will also cost Mozambique at least $50 million a year in Rhodesian transit and rail revenues and up to $30 million annually brought back by Mozambican workers in Rhodesia, which together account for about a quarter of the country's foreign-exchange earnings...
...Radical" in fact simply means being concerned about ecology, day care systems, more public transit and all of the other issues of reform that should've been dealt with five years ago. Ideology, according to Burlingham is no longer as important as a "shift from a politics of protest to a creative--and increasingly effective--brand of positive action...