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Assad's admirers call him "the Tito of the Arab world"?a military man who has become an astute politician on a precarious world stage. In seven years, Syria's per capita income has jumped 203% to the present $760, more than twice that of Egypt. The Soviet Union's stranglehold on Syrian imports and exports of the early 1970s has been broken, and today the U.S., Europe and Japan do more business in Syria than does Moscow. Assad is also trying to broaden his country's foreign political alignments. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, which...
...half-trillion-dollar budget, point out that often the money from Impact Aid goes to communities whether they need it or not. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the wealthiest school districts in the nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though these residents pay local real estate taxes, Montgomery County receives $6 million a year in Impact Aid. Similarly, Washington's suburban Fairfax County, Va., where Langley High School has a country club atmosphere, receives $13 million annually...
Sales figures are mute testimony to his claim: the quantity of alcoholic beverages consumed has risen from 934 million gal. in 1965 to 1,549 million in 1977-14 gal. per capita. (By contrast U.S. per capita consumption in 1977 was 25 gal. But public drunkenness in the U.S. is generally less tolerated.) Alcohol is more available in Japan than in any of the hard-swilling Western nations. Commonly called mizu shobai, or "water business." it is a $40 billion enterprise, enhanced by 100,000 conveniently located vending machines dispensing hard liquor, beer and sake 24 hours...
...reason is that, while almost every other index of the economy has been rising smartly in the past few years, the volume of mail has been stagnant. Last year the Postal Service handled 92 billion pieces of mail, barely more than the 90 billion in 1974; per capita deliveries actually declined a trifle, from 429 pieces to 427. Continual rate increases probably have discouraged greater use of the mails. The Postal Service will go even further into the red if it gives a huge wage boost to 550,000 employees whose union contracts expire on July...
...medicine, whose 1973 National Geographic article and 1975 book Youth in Old Age did much to advance the legend of Vilcabamba's oldsters, ruefully said that it was apparently all a hoax. Vilcabamba ("Sacred Valley" in the Inca tongue), it now appears, has no more senior citizens per capita than other Andean towns. In fact, the revelations of such gerontological high jinks are remarkably similar to earlier reports from Soviet scientists that some of their old folks may not be as ancient as they claim...