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Another heavy blow in the '80s was deregulation of rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...
...emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...
...indirect costs of deregulation are adding up. Moving grain by truck instead of rail increases the rate at which highways and bridges are being degraded. Says Tierce: "In the long term the public is going to pay the price, and rural America will pay a terrible price...
...shock stage," says Roy Roberts. "Some people continue to be amazed when they discover ordinary blacks who are hardworking and successful." Three months ago Navistar International used a $400,000 incentive package to lure Roberts from General Motors to become vice president and general manager of its $3 billion truck-manufacturing operation, which accounts for 75% of Navistar's revenues. He is now one of the most powerful black executives in the country. Last year, when Roberts was looking for a house in a wealthy Chicago suburb, the real estate agent asked what he did for a living. Pop singer...
...given a $1,200 fine and ordered to stage a benefit concert for abused children. In September, Brown stormed into an insurance company next door to his office, waving a gun and complaining that strangers were using his bathroom. When the police arrived, Brown sped away in his pickup truck, touching off a high-speed chase through Georgia and South Carolina that ended only after the cops shot out his tires. The city of Augusta, which had honored him three years ago with a James Brown Appreciation Day, turned on him. "Enough was enough," says Mayor Charles DeVaney...