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...mainly to lure industries from union-dominated Northern states. Opponents, led by the chiefs of organized labor, have countered the lure argument with a statistic that again proved to be forceful in last week's Oklahoma election: the states with right-to-work laws have an annual per capita income of $379 less than the national average. One of the reasons advanced by labor: unions in those states, among the poorer states to begin with, have lost an important part of their power...
...Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...
...interests. Thus, in southside Milwaukee, and in comparable districts in Racine and Kenosha, Wallace won majorities. In the newly created Ninth District, which includes Milwaukee's northshore suburbs, there was a different story with the same ending. The Ninth is generally Republican, boasts Wisconsin's highest per-capita income level. But the district is also rimmed by Negro neighborhoods. And last week Republican Byrnes took only 25% of the Ninth's vote, while Reynolds got 28% and Wallace made a killing with 47%. That result could only be read as a protest against the threat of Negro...
...impoverished Caribbean nation ($70 per capita income, 90% illiteracy), it was a life sentence. Since he took office in 1957, Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies...
Spain of the Sixties. Individually the countries may seem too exasperating and unimportant to bother about. Their per capita income (with the exception of Malaysia) averages between $50 and $100 a year; their illiteracy rate is 30% or 40% ; their political stability is about as solid as a bamboo in a breeze. Yet taken as a whole, they matter greatly. Says a veteran U.S. foreign officer in Hong Kong: "Southeast Asia is the Spain of the 1960s. If we can't and don't win here, how can any friend of ours believe we can win anywhere...