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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen. An account of the Nazis' liquidation of 1,800 people on an Italian mountainside that draws its strength from the author's careful research and unrhetorical style...
While always a major factor, today, the report noted, "our young account for a greater proportion of crime than the increase in their numbers alone can explain." Since 1960, the population of juveniles has risen 22%; meanwhile, their arrest rate for violent offenses has doubled. Despite its findings, the commission drew fatuous hope from a familiar statistic: "Despite the recent trends, 99% of the population do not engage in crimes of violence...
...Dumb. Others besides campesinos have experienced this unique presidential abrazo. Tin exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle...
Both books will face the formidable competition of U.S. Journalist Theodore White, whose third consecutive "Making of a President" account is also scheduled for July publication...
...leading causes of injuries are falls and falling objects. Motor vehicles -whether tractors on the farm or forklift trucks within plant gates-account for the largest single category of fatalities. The number of deaths and disabilities caused by work-related illness is harder to gauge because the effects may not appear for years. Lamp-industry workers of the '40s are still dying from berylliosis, a lung disease brought on by exposure to beryllium, a lightweight metal used for coating fluorescent lighting tubes. Similarly, workers who inhale tiny, indestructible fibers of asbestos as they are blown into place for insulation...