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...levy that hurts them most, the tax on the rising value of their homes. Ignoring warnings that schools may not be able to educate, libraries may close and crime rates may climb, the voters further decreed that any local tax hereafter may increase no more than 2% a year???substantially less than the anticipated hikes in the cost of living. California was the epicenter of the tax-quake, but there were Richter Scale readings nearly everywhere. On the same Tuesday that Proposition 13 swept to victory, taxpayers in Ohio turned down 86 of 139 school tax levies, including emergency outlays...
...Lawrence?frozen solid or clogged with ice floes for nearly five months a year???is the lifeline of Quebec: a rugged land of 594,860 sq. mi., bigger than France and Spain combined. As in the rest of Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers...
...Global Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year???and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
...than Byrne as a political personality. But he may have made a fatal mistake by basing his campaign on a promise to let the one-year-old state income tax expire next June. Bateman has argued that the 2% to 2.5% tax?which brings in about $1 billion a year???should be replaced by a legislative package that would include welfare reform, a selective job freeze and, if necessary, a "modest" increase in the state sales tax. The proposal has been roundly attacked by economists, editorialists?and many fellow Republican politicians. "A blueprint for disaster," charged the Trenton Times, arguing...
...most insistent and complicated American problems. Poverty continues to infect American lives, though not quite as painfully as it did when the Johnson White House mobilized a war against it. But the poor have no publicity now. Still, Chicago has already had an ugly riot this year???an explosion in the Puerto Rican neighborhood around Humboldt Park. Detroit still has two rats for every human resident. Even so, the "long hot summers" of the '60s seem very far away...