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...battled police and right-wing students. When 70,000 workers rioted last summer over an amendment to the labor code that would trim the power of radical union groups, order was restored only by the imposition of martial law. Turkey is also beset by poverty, with an average per capita GNP of only $346 a year, and inflation, which led to a 40% currency devaluation last August...
...imports, and of monopolizing 85% of the central bureaucracy and 90% of the army. By contrast, the more populous East Pakistan, with 72 million people, remains one of the world's most densely populated regions (1,400 per sq. mi.), one of the poorest ($50 per capita income a year), and one of the most disaster-prone (last year's Ganges Delta cyclone killed as many as 500,000 East Pakistanis...
...largest producer of coffee and Africa's largest exporter of timber. Industrial investment is rising by 20% a year. Firms of the caliber of Renault, Esso and Union Carbide are pouring into the country to take advantage of liberal tax holidays and virtually unlimited repatriation of profits. Per capita income is expected to reach $300 in 1971, which is steep for Africa...
...years Sweden Incorporated, as Swedes affectionately call their country, ticked along as smoothly as a Swiss watch. Steady economic growth was matched by full employment. Swedes enjoyed Europe's highest per capita income. Most enviable of all was the nation's record of labor peace. Except for one drawn-out struggle by iron miners in remote Kiruna within the Arctic Circle, it had not suffered a major strike since 1945, when metalworkers staged a five-month walkout. All of this seemed even more remarkable in light of the fact that virtually everyone in Sweden-even clergymen-belongs...
Indirect Costs. Another argument met the developers head on. Do skyscrapers really benefit a city? No one denies that big buildings provide big tax revenues. Even so, recent studies show that as a city grows denser, the per capita costs of all municipal services, including administration, soar. In addition, Manufacturer Duskin contends, towers built in San Francisco since 1965 have had another city-blighting effect. They create new office jobs-but for the wrong people. He quotes a report revealing that jobs held by commuters have gone up by 23%, while jobs for city dwellers have increased by only...