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...matter that striking is illegal: the law is basically unenforceable. First given the right to bargain collectively in the 1950s during the friendly administration of Mayor Robert Wagner, the unions made their biggest gains under Lindsay. On entering office in 1966, he was confronted with a strike of transit workers that brought public transportation to a virtual standstill for twelve days. He mishandled the event with a combination of political naiveté and personal arrogance; the mayor-and the city-never really recovered...
Even more unfortunate than the new bike rip-offs is the old anarchy. Any visitor to Europe has wondered at the rapid transit of pedaling citizens in Dublin and London, Paris and Berlin. In America, pandemonium reigns supreme. Some riders go with traffic; others against it. Some obey vehicular signs; others move with the pedestrian tide. The result: an estimated 456,000 emergency-room visitors in 1974. And more are expected this year...
...just as Carey took office. To save the state's credit-and housing developments already abuilding -Carey had to persuade the legislature to bail out U.D.C. temporarily while he bargained with reluctant bankers to get new underwriting. He also staved off financial disaster in the New York City transit system with an extra infusion of state money. These and other problems, says Carey, have produced a routine of "one day of crisis, one day of planning, one day of crisis." Without some economies and new taxes, the administration estimates that the state's $10.4 billion budget will...
...minute interview with TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat indicated his willingness -under certain conditions-to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force for longer than three months and to consider allowing nonstrategic Israeli cargoes to transit the reopened Suez Canal. Excerpts...
...canal. Even if [the Israelis] ask for their cargoes to pass through in other flagships, we have the full legal right to prevent it. But when the canal is opened it will depend on the conduct of Israel whether their nonstrategic cargoes will be allowed to transit the canal...