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...Thirty-five per cent jives pretty much with the figures we compiled of students interested in student government," he added, referring to the turnout...
...College-wide referendum. 71 per cent of students voting approved of the plan--which calls for scrapping or reorganizing several existing committees and creating a few new ones--and 29 per cent opposed it. About 35 per cent of the student body participated in the vote...
...this nurse, who watched a young man with a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania die with burns over 90 per cent of his body: "What a wasted, wasted, wasted life." Or this soldier, on his first battle: "I kept thinking, 'If only I could talk to the cocksucker firing at me, we'd get along, everything would be all right.' I just had this overwhelming feeling that...we're just pawns in this fucking thing, throwing the shit at each other." These soldiers seem to distinguish something about Vietnam that set it apart from other wars. Unfortunately, they...
...Vietnam-years of 1965 to 1970. And Reagan's planned tax cuts also threaten to aid inflation. Unless Americans somehow start saving at vastly higher rates, the income-tax cuts will not, incidently, offer much to the elderly. A study done in the 1970s concluded that 60 per cent of those over sixty-five received an annual income of less than five thousand dollars. For those old people, a 10 to 30 per cent income tax cut--about $50 to $100--would mean little indeed...
Right-wing forces cannot rid themselves of the political pressures from miners because mineral production has such importance in the Bolivian economy. Although miners represent only 3 per cent of Bolivia's workforce, mining provides the Bolivian government with 60 per cent of its official foreign exchange. Most recently, miners have used their clout to fight persistently for democratic elections; many in Viloco and other centers vowed to oppose this latest interruption to the final consequences. The resistance of such communities had been instrumental in staving off a 1979 attempted coup...