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...Boston Ethical Action Team will hold a similar but much larger Earth Day April 23 on the Esplanade by the Charles River in Boston, team staffer Deborah Cocoa said yesterday...
...Walker, 20, Heisman Trophy-winning junior tailback at the University of Georgia who last week denied rumors that he would forsake the Bulldogs for a $16.5 million contract with the new United States Football League's New Jersey Generals; and Cynthia DeAngelis, 21, a Georgia business major from Cocoa Beach, Fla.; in Athens...
...quickly found an impoverished nation hopelessly in debt, staggering under an increasingly unpopular, largely ineffectual military regime. It was not always so. Back in the late '50s, Ghana (pop. 11.5 million) was something of a showcase for African nationalism. It was the world's leading exporter of cocoa, and it produced nearly 10% of the world's gold. Its Western-style constitution promised civil liberties and political stability. Over the years, however, Ghana's promise was betrayed by a succession of inept governments and ill-considered economic policies. The returnees last week were quickly hustled...
Ghana's greatest single economic failure, however, has been a precipitous drop in cocoa production, which accounts for 70% of the country's exports. Only 200,000 tons will be produced this year, in contrast to 500,000 tons twelve years ago. The reason: successive regimes forced artificially low prices on farmers, who then abandoned cocoa for more lucrative crops. Meantime, the country's already dwindling export earnings were poured into industrial projects that have largely failed. As a result, Ghana's foreign debt exceeds $2 billion, the equivalent of two years' exports...
...idea for USA Today, which now occupies 160,000 sq. ft. of a Rosslyn, Va., office tower overlooking the capital's monuments, was nurtured about three years ago in a bungalow mere blocks away from Neuharth's home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; the Gannett team worked behind windows coated with reflective paper to discourage the curious. By April 1981 the plan had progressed to prototype issues, which were mailed to public figures, journalists and financial analysts for comment. Some of the reaction was pungent. Publisher Joe Murray of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Lufkin, Texas, News returned his dummy issue...