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...first time it is being openly discussed in the Soviet Union. Kitchen Gardeners. Primed by a high postwar birth rate and changes in the Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia and in the Central Asiatic Republics. Partly to blame is that old Western bugaboo, automation. When, for instance, Red planners automated the lime and asphalt plants of Leninsk in Tula province, they put half the region's unskilled laborers out of work. The Soviet Union also has a rising number of young people-many of them school dropouts-who are unable to find...
...society. Last week Novosibirsk's prestigious Economic-Mathematical Research Laboratory published a detailed study of job opportunities in the Soviet Union today-and found that there are not enough to go around, particularly for new high school graduates entering the employment market. The report blamed that old capitalist bugaboo, automation. In time, if creeping Libermanism continues to advance at its present rate, Pravda may have to list job opportunities for unemployed bureaucrats...
...through construction, came a threat that the whole project might well turn out like the Emperor's new clothes. In an unprecedented action, Architect Yoshimura resigned. "Palace authorities have persistently ignored my conscience as an artist," he charged. The crux of the matter, it developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling. Finding...
...control," says New York's Commissioner Allen. "But local control also means that you allow a community to be as poor as it wants to be-and we can't afford that any longer." California's Braden contends that "this concern over federal control is a bugaboo. We already have federal aid amounting to 4% of our school budget in California, and there's been no such attempt at control...
...Among them: agrarian reform, a complete income-tax overhaul, and a law revamping the banking system. The national budget has been cut by 30%. The cruzeiro currency, once skyrocketing toward its namesake Southern Cross, has started to level off, and the cost-of-living increase, Brazil's chronic bugaboo, has declined by 19% in the past year. The U.S. has put up $450 million in aid, while other lenders have chipped in another $300 million...