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...country burst into frenzied celebration. Two days later, thousands of screaming fans gathered in the capital's Plaza de Mayo as President Jorge Rafael Videla welcomed home the squad, still beaming from its 3-1 triumph over the Soviet Union. Meanwhile a much smaller crowd lined up, almost unnoticed, outside the headquarters of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.). More than 1,500 people waited to present petitions to the visiting Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Last week the commission was near the midpoint of a long-delayed, two-week investigation of the fates of thousands of desaparecidos...
...1600s, Venice, once the amazement of the world and the ruler of a considerable part of it, was starting the long decline into the salty tourist trap the city is today. For almost 200 years, starting with the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had been snapping off the Venetian colonies in the eastern Mediterranean. Portuguese caravels, rounding the tip of Africa in increasing numbers, had taken away Venice's old monopoly of the spice trade. Venice was turning from an imperial power into a cultural artifact. As such, she was one of the most visited cities...
...Masterful union negotiators, going back to legendary President Walter Reuther, have won their employees some of the best pensions in private industry. This year the union fought for another breakthrough that would tie pension benefits to the cost of living, a plum common to public employees but still almost unknown in the private sector. But the pension burden for even the giant automakers is heavy and growing. Total pension expenses for GM were $1.3 billion last year, up from $329 million...
...bonds in which they have traditionally invested. In June the Government eased the rule limiting pension fund investments to only those that a "prudent man" would make. Now pension funds can invest in real estate or gold or even Picassos and Chinese porcelain. Eastern Air Lines pilots have almost 10% of their $250 million pension fund in Atlanta warehouses, Kansas City shopping centers and Southeastern forests. Such investments seem attractive at a time of rising prices for tangibles of all kinds, but they could also fall quickly in some future speculative collapse...
...last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, was launched three years ago when John Q, 37, checked in to the Boston hospital for surgery. He had malignant tumors in both kidneys, a condition that occurs in only 1% to 2% of all Americans with renal cancer and almost never before age 50. While taking the patient's history, doctors were startled to learn that one of his aunts also had kidney cancer. Turning sleuths, a team led by Dr. Robert S. Brown studied 40 family members spanning three generations. The resulting statistics were extraordinary...