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...present time, thousands are handeddiplomas who are not only functionally illiteratebut are also incapable of making a transaction ata five-and-dime store," Silber said...
...week's incidents, but the mechanical glitches renewed concern about whether maintenance crews that are stretched thin can maintain an adequate margin of safety. Not only do federal rules require modifications on thousands of older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with new, technically complicated planes. The ATA report, based on a survey of 21 major airlines, found that carriers have been unable to find mechanics for 4,000 vacancies out of a total of 69,000 positions. More troubling, the number of applicants for mechanic's positions is declining...
...president would up his busy day as guest ata state dinner hosted by the Communist Partyleader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Striking muchthe same tone as in his speech to parliament, Bushsaid in a toast that Poland was entering a new eraand was "beginning, once again, to command its owndestiny...
...December 1986, Kazakh youths rampaged through Alma Ata to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as party first secretary of Kazakhstan. In July 1987, Crimean Tatars demanded the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea, from which they were removed in 1944. Last February, Armenians and Azerbaijanis began to clash over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave south of the Caucasus. And last week in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet...
...more than 100 distinct nationalities and ethnic groups living in 15 republics. Russia's rulers have been dealing with restive nationalities since the days of the Czars, but rarely has the problem assumed such urgency. At least two people died 15 months ago, when riots broke out in Alma-Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, to protest the naming of a Russian to head the local Communist Party. A band of Crimean Tatars demonstrated in Red Square last July, seeking the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea; a smaller group briefly pressed the same demand near Moscow...