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...deteriorated and its subways were falling apart. The Federal Government called for more efficient public transit and urged private companies to design a better bus (see box). Mass transit was going to be the methadone that would help America withdraw from its addiction to foreign oil. It would unclog crowded highways and improve the quality of air. Besides, it was an economic necessity: people needed a reliable means of getting to work without being exhausted in the process; businesses needed a way to get customers downtown...
...fury. Two weeks ago, the International Longshoremen's Association announced that its members would not load cargo aboard ships bound for the Soviet Union. Last week President Carter called I.L.A. President Thomas Gleason to the Oval Office and told him, "as your President and Commander in Chief," to "unclog the distribution system." Gleason promised no more than to discuss the request with his membership. But the Government itself is moving to cut down cultural exchanges; last week it made it known that it would cancel a Washington exhibition of artworks from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
...must have a single spokesperson for the education community, they say--even if he/she is just a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong. If one is to believe its supporters, a department is the miracle cure for what ails the federal education bureaucracy, the wonder drug that will unclog the arteries and get the circulation flowing again...
After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city...
...only five acquittals in nine years. "I've got the best prosecution record in the state of Texas," Cooksey modestly admits. But the taxpayers may be getting shortchanged overall. Since 1971, Cooksey's office has cadged five separate LEAA grants, totaling $245,801, to speed prosecutions and unclog court congestion. Result: while there were 799 case dispositions and a backlog of 1,149 cases in 1970, by 1976 there were only 587 dispositions and a whopping 2,400 cases pending. Overall, the LEAA cornucopia has pumped more than $2 million into the Texarkana, Texas, criminal justice system...