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...decaying tenements and grimy rubble of New York's South Bronx. Ten have gqne up since October, and 80 more will be delivered by next fall, assembled on site at the rate of one a day. The new housing project on Charlotte Street, one of the most abject and unsavory slums in the country, was so unprecedented there that...
...Shagari could not retain power, even though he was overwhehningly re-elected last August, highlighted the pattern of failure that has plagued black Africa in the quarter-century since most of its nations became independent. The problems of Nigeria are, by and large, those that afflict the entire continent: abject poverty, rampant corruption, gross mismanagement, tribal enmity, uncontrolled population growth. If, in spite of its assets, Nigeria cannot break out of the vicious cycle of political instability and economic decline, the prospects for most of the continent's other countries appear all the bleaker (see following story...
Indeed, the program was finally a potent and sophisticated civics lesson. Says Pipes: "It is very good for the world, including the Soviets, to know how crisis management works." Adds Lord: "It is important to understand that there are many choices between nuclear holocaust and abject surrender."World war will not start spontaneously, nor will it be avoided by chance. Real men and women, most of them anything but reckless, control the superpowers. Yet the program also made clear the unnerving flipside: for all their academic degrees and years of Government experience, the mock NSC facing the ersatz crisis showed...
...dollar's current strength is a mirror image of its weakness in the late 1970s, when it sank to new lows against the West German mark, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen. Then, many of today's problems were reversed. The abject dollar worsened U.S. inflation by raising the price of imports. European leaders angrily charged that the weak American currency made U.S. exports too cheap and was thus hurting the sale of European goods. The failing dollar also encouraged the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep jacking up oil prices since member countries were being...
Watt was soon issuing apologies all around, including a fairly abject one to President Reagan. "I have made a mistake, Mr. President," Watt wrote, "and I ask the forgiveness of those on the commission as well as you." Watt said his remarks were "extraordinarily unfair" to Reagan, whose policies "are designed to lift the scourge of discrimination from our midst." That may have been Watt's belated recognition that he had not helped the White House in its current campaign to curry favor among women and minorities...