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Perini Corp. contractors for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Red Line extension moved the building to ease pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks and along Mass Ave, Paul F. Wheeler, a project engineer for the company, said yesterday...
Over and over, too, people dubious about aspects of the President's plan took to heart Reagan's challenge to come up with a better one. New York City Mayor Edward Koch asserted that the proposals to slash mass transit aid and the food stamp program and eliminate the CETA program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs "are wrong and must not be implemented." Koch added, however: "I agree that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like...
...Mass Transit. The political clout of the nation's largest cities will be severely tested as Congress grapples with Reagan's plan to end all federal subsidies for the operation of mass-transit systems by 1985 and to cut capital grants by $270 million in 1982. Some Amtrak officials gloomily predict that the result will be the end of a national rail system by 1985. More immediately, Amtrak expects to have to stop running eight commuter trains daily between New York City and Philadelphia, putting thousands of people back into cars at a time when the nation...
...goes the list of potential cuts: the black book suggests reductions in federal aid to the arts, in support for public TV, in mass transit, in postal subsidies and in the space program, even though both Reagan and Stockman are ardent space buffs. Not even the most popular federal programs are spared. In the case of Social Security, the Administration would leave basic retirement benefits untouched. But it is considering scrapping the $122 minimum monthly benefit to retirees who have paid very little into the system and payments to students whose parents have died, as well as reductions in disability...
...justification, U.S. diplomats argued that the increasing flow of sophisticated weaponry to the leftists from foreign sources indicated that the antigovernment forces had, in the words of U.S. Ambassador Robert White, "upped the ante." The envoy pointed the finger mostly at Nicaragua, not only as a transit point for arms, but also as the possible base from which a bizarre seaborne "invasion" had supposedly been launched during the offensive against the eastern coast of El Salvador...