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Local Issues. She has helped New York City get federal funds to provide security at the United Nations, as well as more federal help for mass transit. She urged that federal airport funds be spent to alleviate street-traffic problems near airports, with La Guardia's impact on her Queens neighborhood in mind...
Moreover, women with political ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman...
With good reason. The 40 training sites, 29 event sites and three Olympic Villages sprawl over more than 4,500 sq. mi. and are linked by about 150 miles of automobile-choked highways. Protecting the anticipated 600,000 athletes, coaches, dignitaries and tourists at each location, and in transit between them, will be a logistical nightmare. Moreover, unlike other nations that have been host to the Olympics, the U.S. does not have a national police force. At least 50 local, state and federal and nine private security organizations are responsible for guarding the Games. This potential jurisdictional tangle was sorted...
...cable-car system, a $58.2 million project due to be completed by late June, three weeks before Democratic conventiongoers start pouring in. She wheedled 80% of the funds from Washington and cajoled private citizens to donate the rest. Says Harold Geissenheimer, general manager of the city's transit system: "This is a businesswoman running this city. She's there seven days a week...
...incomes over $90,000. He would save another $80 billion by cutting defense outlays by 20%. But if Jackson reduces the deficit by $70 billion, as he proposes, and fulfills his intention to spend $50 billion to rebuild the nation's infrastructure (roads, bridges, water systems, mass transit), he would have only $10 billion left to fight poverty. That amount would not come close to restoring the $25 billion cut from programs affecting the poor by the Reagan Administration...