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Show western americuva PEOPLES BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION PAGE 3 Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Vol. 6, No. 45 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 November 6, 1975 THE SPREADING INFERNO New York City, N.Y.: Despite President Fords public disclaimer, the federal government already is deeply involved in New York Citys mushrooming financial and moral crisis. A symbol of this involvement is the Taino Towers, a newly constructed Federally subsidized housing project for the poor in East Harlem. The $45 million luxury project, which will open its doors to the fi rst 656 tenants by the end of the year, is a cluster of four buildings that rise 35 stories above the skyline here. As far as government subsidized housing goes, there is nothing quite like it any place in the world. The centrally air conditioned project has indoor swim- ming pool, a gymnasium, auditorium, theater, greenhouse, roof game rooms and play areas, and underground parking. Representing a cost of $69,000 apiece, the apartments range upward to six bedrooms and would normally rent in the' city for anywhere from $400 to $1,200 a month. The selected group of poor tenants, including a number on public welfare, who will occupy the apartments will pay only $100 to $225 a month with the American taxpayers picking up the rest of the bill. Total of the massive federal government housing subsidy committed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development over the next 40 years amounts to $82 million. The subsidy will be in the form of interest, rent, and utility payments and is one of the largest ever agreed to by a federal agency. Financed with government guaranteed loans from a consortium of New York banks, the super-housiproject already faces financial difficulties despite ng By Paul Scon the huge federal subsidies because of New York Citys own crisis. Originally, the city had planned to help pay for the projects operating and maintenance costs by renting space in the lower floors for expanded medical and educational facilities for the tenants and surrounding community. These buildings services were proposed by federal government and city social planners who wanted to make the for visiting project a show-cas- e foreign delegations. This part of the grandiose housing scheme, however, has now been shelved because of the citys financial plight and the need to cut back on all services in order to try to avoid bankruptcy. Still in effect is the citys forgiveness of all taxes on the project. Without the extra rental funds from the city. U.S. government housing officials admit that the helped turn New York into the public welfare city where 11 project could be headed like New York City for an early default. percent of 8 million residents are Because of the federal now on relief. This means that at guarantees on the loans, this would least one out of every eight persons mean that the Department of is now supported by the city or Housing and Urban Development federal government. This high ratio of persons on would have to step in and take over the project from its present spon- welfare has caused a general, atsors, the East Harlem Tenants titude among those who work here that if the federal and city Council. government can hand out these THE benefits that they have a right to CREATING PROBLEM It is economically demand everything they can obunsound social experiments like tain. A New York City policeman this pushed by the federal and city governments which have helped to interviewed on his beat near Cencreate New Yorks present finan- tral Park put it this way: 1 have worked and risk my cial crisis. The tax arrangement alone life for nearly twenty years, and will cost the city several million nobody has ever offered to subdollars each year while the luxury sidize a $500 a month apartment apartments stand as a monument with access to an indoor swimming for the rising expectations of those pool for my family. who do not work. Why shouldn't we seek all we This type of a project has Continued on page 5 - Reprinted from The Herald of Freedom TEbe Meralb of freeborn UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Second Cbca Poctaga Ptidat Ddt LehoCHy, Utsh a to M CA r- - aa H Si PI ua, H H Q P 14 bt CO l1 04 H tS ao oM Hg SO j 5o c 05 CO M S pre-planni- ng U.S.-own- ed Anti-Imperial- ist J CO consolidate worldwide Communist support in making Puerto Rico an independent Marxist-Lenini- st state, and to promote guerrilla warfare in the United States. The conference came about as a result of earlier sessions and the main objective of the Havana Conference was the implementation of the plans for guerrilla warfare in the United States. It is expected that these guerrilla activities will be carried out under the banner of seeking independence for Puerto Rico and supporting the Marxist regime of Panama's claim to the Panama Canal. In attendance at the Havana conference were top Communist revolutionary leaders from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, North Vietnam, North Korea and Portugal. The U.S. delegates to the Communist conference which seeks to promote guerrilla warfare throughout Latin America and the U.S. included: Vernon Bellecourt, field director, international affairs, American Indian Movement (AIM). Margaret Burroughs, exec, dir., DuSable Museum and active in such CPUSA Moveoperations as the National ment in Solidarity with African Liberation (NA1MSAL), the National Council of American-Sovi- et Friendship, and the U.S. Committee for Friendship with the GDR. Hon. John Carro, N.Y. Criminal Court and former law partner of Mark Lane as well as onetime social worker for the juvenile Lee Harvey Afro-Americ- an M t From September 5 to 7 a meeting was held in Havana, Cuba, the purpose of which was to 4 Oswald. Anthony Monteirn, CPUSA member and ex ecutive secretary of NA1MSAL. Grace Mora, exec, secretary of the U.S. Support Committee to the Havana Conference and chairperson of CPUSAs Puerto Rican Commission. William Bill Scott, United Auto Workers Local 664 (Tarrytown) and strenuously active on behalf of the Daily World, NAIMSAL and other CPUSA causes. Piri Thomas, author and supporter of previous Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) rallies. Doron Weinberg, president. National Lawyers Guild. Helen Winter, CPUSA International Affairs Secretary. Florencio Merced-Ros- a, PSP Political Commis- sion. Alfredo Lopez, PSP Political Commission and executive secty. of the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee (PRSC). Frances Beal, Third World Womens Alliance, National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People (NIC) and (PRSC). Arthur Kinoy, founder of NIC. Carlos Feliciano, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, on parole after his admission to charges of possession of illegal explosive materials. Rosemary Mealy, coordinator. Third World Coalition ot the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Venceremos Brigade (VB). Julie Nichamin, N.Y. coordinator, PRSC; Venceremos Brigade. Rosemary Ro Reilly, exec, director, U.S. Continued on page 6 |