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...when word came that the government was raising the price of bread by over 100%, the facade of stability cracked. Riots erupted last week, starting in outlying regions and spreading to the streets of Tunis, the capital. As mobs composed mainly of teen-agers and young men in their 20s rampaged through city streets, smashing shop windows and attacking post offices and banks. President
When David Tom, a frail young Chinese immigrant in his early 20s, was first admitted to an Illinois mental institution in 1952, all he was able to say in English was "Me no crazy. This nuthouse...
...destructive of all, Moscow continued its relentless piling up of arms. In 1977 the Kremlin started emplacing mobile, accurate, triple-warhead SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far East and in the western U.S.S.R.; those in Europe vastly increased the destructive power aimed at U.S. NATO allies. The SS-20s were supposedly intended to counter the threat posed to Moscow by British and French nuclear weapons, but by the end of 1978 they already exceeded the British and French forces in the number of warheads...
...withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. from the INF talks of course worries us. The Soviet position on this seems to me to overlook the fact that their deployment of SS-20s threatened the balance of power in Europe in the first place. I urge Mr. Andropov to think again on this. In the longer term, I believe that both superpowers have compelling reasons of acute national interest to pursue arms-control agreements. Progress will probably be achieved in gradual steps and only after difficult negotiations...
...Little Rock television station found that 65% of those questioned favored the sales-tax increase and 61% approved of teacher testing. The support has surprised even Clinton, who has a three-year-old daughter. Last month in Fort Smith he was approached by a shabbily dressed woman in her 20s who told him that she was the only one of her family who could read well enough to hold down a job. She said, the Governor recalls, "We didn't learn what we needed to learn, and we didn't know what we would need to know...