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Daily News from New York, New York • 688

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New York, New York
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688
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10 A Roosevelt tram to close for 2 weeks in August The Roosevelt Island Tramway will close for at least two weeks beginning Aug. 10 to replace two cables, officials said yesterday. The shutdown is to change the two main haul cables on the aerial cable car, said Joseph Pennisi, deputy commissioner of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, which oversees the island. He said the cost of changing the two cables will be about $100,000. Buses will transport the 6,000 Roosevelt Island residents through Queens and across the Queensboro Bridge to Second Ave.

and 59th St during the work, Pennisi said. By FRANK JACKMAN Washington (News Bureau The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Reagan administration may bar some advocacy groups like the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from the government's nationwide charity drive. At issue was the makeup of the organizations permitted to take part in the annual Combined Federal Campaign, a sort of government United Fund that each year collects millions of dollars for charity from about 4 million federal workers throughout the nation. The campaign is the only way charities may solicit money from federal employes at work. In a 4 to-3 decision with Justices Thurgood Marshall and Lewis Powell not participating the high court overturned a lower court ruling that i zrjiit' 1 1 1 I li 1 1 14 kt 1 1 11 1 gid I I sparklers is more beneficial than a dollar spent on litigation that might or might not result in aid to the needy." Justice Harry Blackmun, writing in dissent, said barring these groups from the charity drive was "on its face, viewpoint-based discrimination." In New York, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund vowed to continue its fight to receive funds from the federal charity drive, which brought in $500,000 a year until 1983.

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