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...apply pressure to hold down the inequities stemming from a state's relative inability or unwillingness to deal fairly with the problem. States and cities, on the other hand, can more effectively make decisions on how to provide such basic public services as schools, roads, water, sewage and transit systems...
...brief and controversial history of the Guardian Angels. Just three years ago, they were the "Magnificent 13," a group of unarmed, street-smart youths who took it upon themselves to patrol New York City's crime-ridden subways. Ghetto residents felt that their presence on trains deterred muggers; transit police thought the red-bereted youths were a nuisance and dismissed Sliwa as a self-promoting vigilante. After a "memorandum of understanding," which assured police cooperation with the Angels, was worked out with New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Sliwa intensified a nationwide recruiting campaign. Today the Angels claim...
...oversees, managed to keep air traffic moving. Less visibly, Lewis has worked to get the Government out of the railway business and eventually divest itself of the Conrail freight line in the Northeast. He is also working to cut back federal subsidies for Amtrak passenger trains and for local transit systems. Many may strongly oppose his programs, but almost all who have dealt with him admire his effectiveness and his attention to political sensitivities. A possible candidate for promotion to a more important post, Lewis belongs on the Cabinet's A list...
...Converting the economy from war to peace industries brings an added benefit: more jobs. Military spending employs fewer people than almost any other sector of the economy. One billion dollars spent by the Pentagon creates 75,710 jobs; the same billion employs 92,071 people if spent on mass transit, 138,939 people if spent on health care, and 187,299 people if spent on education...
...justifications abound: The current administration believes (and, indeed, the last administration believed, though to a lesser extent) in funding for defense research and not for mass transit research, not for nutrition research, not for housing research, and not for pure science. There is little but lasers and graphic displays and the like that they will find; it is no wonder that scientists structure grant proposals to appeal to generals...