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...Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Watts, because there they can get 24-hour-a-day experience treating the kind of gunshot wounds normally seen only...
...Californians approached Proposition 111 with trepidation, even though the state's 9 cents-per-gal. gas tax, last increased in 1983, is one of the lowest in the country. (The national average is 15.8 cents.) No wonder then that California ranks 48th among the 50 states in per capita spending for highways -- with predictable results. In a motor-happy state, the highways are crumbling and inadequate...
...constraints imposed by Proposition 13 have begun to chafe. A position paper compiled by assemblyman Tom Hayden points out that California, once a leader of progressive government, has dropped to near last place among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in measures of living quality, including per capita spending on schools, classroom size and housing affordability...
...1980s, political leaders told their constituents that times would be lean for a few years under the belt-tightening policies and would then turn rosy. But their deadlines are long past, and their promises are unfulfilled. According to a World Bank report last year, the gap in per capita income between sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the Third World keeps widening. In 1988 the contrast was $330 vs. an average $750 for all developing countries. The nations of black Africa, home to 470 million people, together have the purchasing power of Belgium, a country of only 10 million...
...disenchanted and uncertain views voiced everywhere in Vietnam. Fifteen years after the fighting ended on April 30, 1975, the country remains impoverished and embittered. While it has been at peace since most Vietnamese troops left Cambodia last September, there is great discontent over living conditions and an annual per capita income of less than $200, far below that of South Vietnam in 1975. Last year 75,000 boat people set sail for the refugee camps of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, attempting to escape not so much an oppressive regime as grinding poverty. Free-market economic reforms begun...