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...Mosquera, 13 miles from Bogota, where the Pope was set down by helicopter before 50,000 campesinos. Leaving his copter, Paul boarded a white Jeep and, for half an hour, drove through a multitude of awed faces. Present in the crowd were "typical" peasants from 21 Latin American coun tries, selected to attend the confrontation with the Pontiff. Bolivia sent the head of its National Peasants' Union...
...MOBILIZATION. "We must make greater sacrifices because this is our coun try," said Thieu. "I have decided to increase the armed forces by 135,000." The President said that the new troops would be created mainly by mobilizing 18-and 19-year-olds and by recalling veterans under 33 with less than five years of military service...
...reform criminals, replied of the 77% of nation's Americans in "correctional" a recent Harris Poll. But 80% of the nation's " correctional;" employees merely guard 426,000 inmates in a hodgepodge of archaic institutions that range from adequate to appalling. Only 20% of the coun try's correctors work at rehabilitation. And 30% of all released offenders (75% in some areas) are reimprisofied within five years, often for worse crimes...
...this way, Nehemiah has come a long way from Frankfurt, his birth place. But he has not left his past behind him yet. Nehemiah is secretary of Ayeleth Hashachar--a combination of mayor, personnel supervisor, presiding elder and youth coun selor. Essentially, he is responsible for the immediate well-being of 1000 men, women, and children. The job requires all the managerial talent of a Ford presidency and sets a pace that would leave any tycoon panting. He has more than handled the challenge. This is his second term as secretary, and he's been asked to stay six months...
...blank puzzlement on the faces of Collie Leroy Wilkins and his two accomplices after their conviction for violating the civil rights of Selma Marcher Viola Liuzzo, after they had been previously acquitted of murdering her. There were the pictures of Negro voters forming a long line outside an Alabama coun- try store to vote for the first time; of Governor George Wallace "standing in the school-house door"; and of a younger Martin Luther King (before his Nobel Prize) organizing and leading the Montgomery bus boycott through to success...