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...cells. Less than half work or attend classes. The others mainly watch daytime television and frequently turn their idle nothing-to-lose ferocity against one another. Homosexual rape has long been commonplace, and stabbings are now epidemic, averaging 19 a month, in contrast to about nine a month in 1984. Assailants wield sharpened combs and toothbrushes, melted-down margarine containers and other makeshift daggers. The usual motive is simple racial hatred among blacks, Hispanics and Anglos...
...Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through the city, looting stores, stealing...
Despite its cut-rate fares, People expects to earn profits because its expenses are unusually low. Its employees are not unionized, and its pilots earn only between $40,000 and $50,000 a year. At American and United, in contrast, pilots take home an average of about $108,000 annually, and at Delta they earn more than $130,000. It costs People 5.17¢ to fly a passenger one mile, which is well below the industry average of 10?...
...about a third of the purchase price by spinning off United Artists for $470 million and selling it back for $9 a share to Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who owns 50.1% of MGM/UA's stock. The slimmed-down United Artists will have few assets other than its film library. In contrast, MGM will retain its extensive film and TV production and distribution operations, including the 24 sound stages on its 44-acre Culver City lot and an impressive library of 2,200 films (including Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain and 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...speak of May 2, 1982, as "Black Sunday." On that day, Exxon and Tosco pulled out of their Colony Oil shale project after having invested about $1 billion. Home prices in Mesa County tumbled by as much as 50%. Unemployment climbed to 15%, and now stands at 9.8%, in contrast to the U.S. average...