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...Jewish immigrants from the West. Because the flow of Jews to Israel has dwindled to 25,000 a year, "we are short of manpower." Of the hostile Arab nations surrounding Israel, Egypt alone is growing 24 times as fast. What is more, the new immigrants are mostly dark-skinned, backward Oriental Jews from the Middle East and, unless they are leavened 'by Westerners, he said, nothing can prevent Israel from "developing into a Levantine state." World Jewry owes Israel a debt, he declared, because "there is no doubt that the state has straightened the backs of Jews in every...
...University College of Addis Ababa, who had come out in support of the rebels, learned that they could not go back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...
...Operations, decided that South America's navies-at times the butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
Sandwiched between India and Tibet and ringed about by the towering Himalayas, Nepal long was as remote as a country could get. Underneath its hibiscus and gardenia blossoms, its whitewashed stupas and tinkling bells, its 8,500,000 people were among the most backward in Southeast Asia, beset by malaria, illiteracy and preyed upon by landlords and moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young...
...have skyrocketed (the Washington Statler Hilton built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub drain trap that Boston had accepted about 50 years ago. Tabler did battle, got the code updated, saved $15,000 on that one change alone...