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Sixty percent of the people in Chile make less than $40 a month. There is 30 percent unemployment and absolutely no welfare, not even unemployment or health insurance. Food is shared communally to fend off starvation. The military does not dare enter the barrios, which are almost in a state of civil war. The slumdwellers have organized themselves and send out groups to ambush patrolling soldiers. But the poor have nothing, neither food nor guns, only their rage and their stones...
...face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation of suicide squads for commando attacks against American targets in the U.S. and elsewhere "if the U.S. should dare to launch an aggression against Libya or any other Arab country." Added the joint declaration: "He who sets a fire must be burned by his own fire...
...Monday--Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, acting on a dare from Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien, votes to implement a tuition plan modelled on Manhattan parking rules: in odd-numbered years, people with last names starting with vowels or consonants contained in the words "Rich Old White Men" do not have to pay tuition. In even-numbered years, everyone else is absolved. Consequently, 1986-7 College tuition hits $45,900. Comments a stunned O'Brien, "Jezz--I didn't know those guys had such a great sense of humor...
...Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced. "Let me work or sue me." The colegio responded to the dare, and a criminal suit followed. At his first trial in 1983, Schmidt was acquitted; a lower court ruled that he had indeed violated local law, but that he was exonerated by the higher authority of Article...
Last July, ABC, CBS, and NBC rejected a public-service message provided by the American College of Obstericians and Gynecologists. The topic of the 30-second spot? Family planning and--dare we say it--contraceptives...