League of Cities Proposes `Operation Urban Storm'; House Panel Is Told Emergency Aid Needed From: The Washington Post | Date: March 13, 1991| Author: | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

People in the nation's largest central cities have incomes only 59 percent as high as those of people in the surrounding suburbs, leaving many cities financially crippled, the National League of Cities told Congress yesterday.

"Now that the liberation of Kuwait has been accomplished," said Ruth Messinger, Manhattan borough president in New York City, "my colleagues and I propose that the federal government immediately undertake the liberation of millions of Americans in our cities trapped by the tyranny of poverty, illiteracy, hunger, unemployment, crime and hopelessness.

"We propose, in ...

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