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...more conjecture than cotton last week. Although Attorney General Ramsey Clark had theorized that the assassin acted alone, rather than as part of a conspiracy, someone had sent false radio reports to Memphis police headquarters in the minutes immediately after the shooting. The messages could have been designed to divert police attention from the killer's escape route...
...from the Debris. While they look toward that kind of help, insurance companies plan to continue another phase of their operations in the ghettos. Since last September, when they pledged to divert $1 billion of their annual $16 billion flow of investments toward slum areas, over $350 million has been committed for a total of 26,588 housing units and 7,551 permanent jobs. Among the projects: a $4,500,000 low-income cooperative rising on nine acres of cleared land in debris-strewn Newark, $8,500,000 to construct 530 single-family houses in Chicago, and $15 million...
...have had to invest 3,300,000 rubles. The Communists have been used to raising capital by coercion, holding down wages, deferring consumption, and plowing back the produce of today's labor into plants and machines for tomorrow. But now they are also finding it politically necessary to divert more and more into consumption to quiet their clamoring people. One consequence is that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have begun in a modest way to import capital from the West, permit Western businessmen to invest in some ventures...
...goods and services that the individuals buy," he writes, "control their needs and petrify their faculties. They have dozens of newspapers and magazines that espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable gadgets that keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue-which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satisfactions...
There will be pressures, as Eckstein points out, to divert money back into the defense establishment. The cities have to respond by mobilizing counterpressure...