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More than half a million people have applied to leave the country legally, but under the Orderly Departure Program, only about 300 emigrants a week make it out. Many are the bastard children of G.I.s. Says Refugee Tran Thi My Chau, 17: "Everybody called me con lai (half-breed...
...increasing role of political action committee money in American politics "poses a serious threat to the whole political system," former Professor of Law Archibald Con '34 told a group of about 25 Democratic Club members last night...
...Japanese gained even more. Since the restraints made Japanese autos scarcer, the manufacturers were able to raise the prices of their cars an average of $1,300. Japan's Big Three--Toyota, Nissan and Honda--drove away from the U.S. with trunkfuls of dollars as they con- centrated sales on , their more expensive models, where the big profits are made. One Government study showed that the import restraints cost U.S. consumers more than $1 billion annually, with about 90% of it going to Japanese manufacturers and distributors...
Schuller, 58, a self-described retailer of religion and apostle of possibility thinking, is probably the most conspicuous and certainly one of the most con troversial religious figures in American Protestantism. His syndicated Sunday morning TV service, The Hour of Power, reaches an audience of almost 3 million, placing him among the nation's top-rated televangelists. He is the author of two recent best sellers, Tough-Minded Faith for Tender- Hearted People and Tough Times Don't Last, but Tough People Do!, as well as 19 other books. In his latest, The Power of Being Debt Free, published last...
...terror of nuclear war forever, by making the U.S. invulnerable to assault, then Star Wars almost certainly cannot work. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger characterizes the headier versions of a Star Wars plan as "half Buck Rogers, half P.T. Barnum," and even the most ardent proponents generally con- cede that no technology now known or foreseeable could be guaranteed to destroy every warhead the Soviets could launch. Some percentage would always get through, causing death and devastation beyond the mind...