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Last year 287 million visitors tramped, trekked, drove, wandered or flew through America's 341 national parks. The tourist population has nearly doubled since 1971, and could jump to 500 million by the year 2010. Current facilities cannot handle the crush. Use has also brought abuse: people may visit the parks to get away from it all, but they bring civilization's discontents with them. Popular parks spend more than half their budgets on chores like garbage patrols and bathroom maintenance...
...perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded by too much. Up close the dream looks fragile and fraudulent. You crush it, and everything vanishes...
Jackson began studying Russian in 1958 as a sophomore at Northwestern University after Sputnik went up. He put the language to good use a decade later as a wire-service reporter in Prague, where he interviewed "bewildered and uncommunicative Soviet soldiers" who helped crush the reformist Prague Spring. That encounter gave Jackson a glimpse of the plight of individuals in a police state, which became a major theme of his 1986 novel, Dzerzhinsky Square. As he left Moscow for Bonn, Jackson looked forward to reporting from "a country that works, a land of good wine and clean rest rooms...
...four-year court battle has been hard on the whistle-blowers. Says McKay: "I would not urge anyone to subject their families to what I've had to do. If you stand up and insist on not going along with wrongdoing, you're going to have people try to crush you." Recalls Williams: "Ashland Oil had been my life. I felt fiercely loyal to the company, but I felt betrayed." Both men believe they were blacklisted by the petroleum industry after they left Ashland. The executives can hope, though, that their victory may bring about some change in corporate ethics...
...what was perhaps the nation's biggest and longest general strike. Organized by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, a 700,000-member black umbrella group, the walkout proved that Pretoria's two- year-old state of emergency -- renewed last week for another year -- had failed to crush opponents of apartheid. The general strike, protesting proposed changes that would toughen South Africa's already restrictive labor laws, defied a February order that banned COSATU and 17 other militant groups from all political action...