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...spilled, plates dropped, and strange crashes are heard from the direction of the kitchen, "Oh, that must be the salmon." McGee explains to the guests. "The cat's had it on the floor three times already." Snorty's calm, almost scholarly manner makes a nice counterpoint to all the chaotic running around, and Maxwell's subtle performance is a welcome break from the usual mugging...
...million people, 80% live in rural areas and 90% are illiterate. With only about 1,000 trained administrators, both black and white, Frelimo will have a hard time running a country twice the size of California. Rail and road transport are already breaking down, and internal communications are chaotic. Even some of Machel's "dynamization committees," set up all over the country to sell the people on the new life in Mozambique, have broken up in disagreement. Hundreds of once trusted cadres have been sent out in disgrace to rural areas to "learn from the masses...
...proposals was to ensure that serious offenders go to prison. In this he seemed to reflect a growing consensus of both liberals and conservatives. Ford called for mandatory jailing, with certain exceptions, of persons who commit violent offenses under federal jurisdiction. He also urged a reform of the chaotic system of federal laws. State legislatures should follow suit, he suggested, and he asked Congress to authorize $6.8 billion for Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grants to local and state governments between now and 1981. In several states, victims of crimes receive compensation for their physical injuries; Ford now proposes awards...
...kind of grace note to this chaotic symphony, the House last week failed, by three votes, to override a presidential veto of a bill to regulate more strictly the strip mining of coal. As a result, somewhat more critically needed coal will be produced, but at the expense of the environment. The bill's environmental safeguards would not have compounded the energy problem if the nation had a coordinated energy policy. As it was, however, the vote merely highlighted the inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic...
...structures are sound but also to require builders to follow Rome's 1965 master plan, which specifies where and how the city should grow. Instead of the planners' vision of broad boulevards in town and garden communities on the outskirts, the illegal building has spawned a chaotic jumble of drab office and apartment towers on narrow, treeless streets. By one estimate, 300,000 people-the equivalent of the population of Wichita,Kans.-now live or work in buildings erected without construction permits...