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...recent months the criticism of Somoza has become even more bitter. Nicaragua's chronic crisis has been exacerbated by rising food costs, seen by the people as an indication that Somoza is speculating in prices (certainly the shift in rural production from foodstuffs to the more profitable export crop of cotton has contributed to the hike, and Nicaragua's food prices are clearly higher than those in neighboring Central American countries.) Additionally, the housing shortage in Managua remains acute, and a two-month strike of construction workers has halted all rebuilding save that which takes place protected by armed guards...
...Israeli psychiatrists and psychologists, the Yom Kippur War was a bench mark. Before it, nation building and the chronic threat of war seemed to leave little room for worry about personal emotional problems. Esteem for the psychosciences was low, at least by Western standards. Since the 1973 war, public respect for psychiatry has risen sharply. For one thing, many psychiatrists and psychologists performed heroically during the conflict: they moved to the front with the troops to deal with battle shock on the spot; behind the lines they manned crisis centers to treat soldiers and civilians alike. Their work was doubly...
Longley has vowed to solve Maine's chronic economic backwardness by skillful budget paring and attracting new business. But as an independent, he faces unusual difficulties. Maine's state bureaucracy is as entrenched as any in the country. Longley, who on election night allowed, "I'm still a Democrat," may indeed have to shed his independent elective mantle to win legislative votes for his program. Still, the Governor-elect remains confident. He has already vowed not to seek reelection, in the perhaps naive hope that this will improve his chances for accomplishment, and he feels that...
Never having been forced to live within the confines of a reservation, the Indians of St. Augustine have avoided so far many of the chronic problems faced by Indians in the United States. Alcoholism, for example, is not a problem. Drinking--beer only--is done in three or four-day sprees after the arrival of welfare checks or when cousins and friends from down the coast come to visit in the summer. Rather than violence, their drinking seems to invoke depression for the most part. Drunken men wander up and down the boardwalk in front of the single...
...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...