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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the sea and the land, the air and outer space became America's frontiers. And so they remain. What happens in future international struggles in politics and economics will depend in an important way on U.S. ascendancy in air and space, the vigor of the industry that produces new machines and the vision of a President in regulating peaceful transport, nurturing exploration and employing new weapons...
Africa's land area. Though administered by autonomous governments, most depend for subsistence on primitive agriculture and handouts from Pretoria. Even within Nationalist circles, the homelands concept is criticized as unworkable. But during the past 20 years, some 3 million blacks have been stripped of their South African citizenship, uprooted by the government and trucked off to these remote and hardscrabble locations...
...South Africa will meet 60% of its needs for oil and gasoline. Nor are international economic sanctions likely to give pause to the rulers in Pretoria. One ironic reason: although neighboring black nations would want to go along with a boycott, they could not for long because they depend so heavily on South African trade...
...nation's constitution calls for elections within six months, but with Zia's majority Bangladesh Nationalist Party now bereft of a strong leader and the 29 opposition parties fragmented and fractious, the fate of civilian rule seemed to depend on who flexes the biggest muscles. For the moment at least, the military's guns were supporting the government...
...part who feel the reductions, (some may, however, become ex-Harvard students because of the reductions in student grants and loans) but rather those like the gluttonous children on the public dole who (horrors!) get both food stamps and school lunches and the workers who will now have to depend on the "free" labor market to see their job safety rules enforced. And as for the predicted rejuvenation of the free enterprise system, we have our doubts there, too. Reagan's tax plan (if, as expected, it passes) will offer low and middle-income tax-payers little relief to their...