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...York's elected officials, however, are in no position to fight these evils. They themselves are the chief beneficiaries of the patronage system, and municipal unions and welfare recipients wield an immense amount of political clout in the city. No elected official can stand against them. If the Federal Government is to bail the city out, municipal government as we have known it in New York City must come to an end. This may not be so bad. While it is hard to wax rhapsodical over the prospect of Burns, Simon and Ford running the city's finances, at least...
...afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky's emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography law, the courts may well agree. Until the courts act, male employees at Steimatzky's Agency will dutifully wield their black-magic markers. Says he: "We wouldn't ask women to do it because it would be tasteless...
...that the current census (unofficial, because no one wants to provoke a crisis with an official count) no longer bears much relationship to the unwritten National Covenant of 1943, which established ratios. The Moslems, once a minority, now total 1.8 million and exceed Maronite Christians (1.2 million), who still wield majority power. This rigid confessional formula has become a straitjacket, institutionalizing communal dissension rather than easing it. Yet despite the continuing bloodshed and the threat of anarchy, politicians in the bitterly divided nation have largely proved neither powerful, courageous nor selfless enough to agree on a practical alternative...
...plagued the country for the past two months. For one thing, Pinheiro de Azevedo's politics are somewhat suspect to the moderates; some of his closest aides are staunch Communists. For another, Gonçalves was out but not down. As Chief of Staff, he would still wield considerable power. The switch did not placate the nine moderate military officers, headed by former Foreign Minister Major Ernesto Melo Antunes, who had campaigned for Gonçalves' ouster on the grounds that he was proCommunist. They declared the decision "illegal" because they were not consulted, and could easily produce...
...York Magazine had published its cover story on Quinn, which in her words described her as a "tough, mean, bitchy woman, who had no women friends, who had slept her way to the top to get the interviews and jobs, who had used her father's position to wield power, who considered herself a sex symbol and played it to the hilt, and who would scratch and claw anyone anytime to get what and where she wanted." Given the prevailing attitudes about successful women, the portrayal was not surprising--Barbara Walters, after all, has been accused of similar things...