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Last year 18.6 million tourists from abroad came to the land of Kojak and Huckleberry Finn, and the total is expected to top 20 million in 1978. Though waiters and cab drivers complain that they are not the world's best tippers, the foreign visitors will spend more than ever -nearly $9 billion, or $450 per person. Americans abroad still outspend them by almost $2 billion, but the gap is narrowing rapidly. Most important, foreign tourism is creating jobs in the service industries, which employ many blacks and Hispanic Americans...
...original New Deal idealism. Switching from its initial reliance on dams, the TVA built large coal plants and the world's largest nuclear power station. To finance expansion, the TVA began to raise rates. Even though these rates remained far below commercial levels, disillusioned customers nonetheless started to complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter...
These migrant workers, who now number almost 1 million, remain outside the main stream of Saudi life, since most leave when their specific job contracts expire. In Al Knobar, shops cater to the thousands of Korean workers with window signs reading KOREAN SPOKEN HERE. Saudis complain that the Egyptian and Pakistani workers are responsible for the increase in burglary in a country that boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world (in part, because thieves are punished by having their hands cut off). On occasion, Yemenites have gone on slowdown strikes, while Filipinos, Pakistanis and Koreans have demonstrated...
...affair, not least by exaggerating its importance. But the German complaints are pretty outrageous, given Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's political cowardice in wanting the weapon without taking responsibility for it. (In general, the Europeans are forever demanding strong U.S. leadership-until they get it, at which point they complain that they are being pushed around...
Critics condemn the working paper as a retreat to old-fashioned churchly paternalism and complain that it plays down Latin America's social and economic ills. In one section, for instance, the poor are promised the consolations of faith, which will allow them "to live in fortitude and enjoy that happiness of the kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society...