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...Khomeini regime's vulnerability. Iran's foreign reserves of $1 billion are drying up rapidly. The government needs $800 million more per month than its oil revenues provide just to supply the basic needs of its restive population. Since November the regime has had to divert $1.5 billion in development and welfare funds to help finance the prolonged war with Iraq. Oil exports have leveled off at 900,000 bbl. per day, providing $966 million a month in revenues, compared with $1.74 billion in 1978. In a nation of 39.8 million, 4 million are now jobless...
Libraries everywhere have had to divert money for maintaining and improving collections into increased security. The Chicago Public Library, where from 1979 to 1981 thieves took a $2 million bite out of a $120 million collection, is installing a $1.7 million computerized circulation-control system, which will ensure that anyone with an overdue book will not be permitted to borrow further. An electronic device at the University of Pennsylvania has reduced losses by 39% and paid for itself in 38 months. In DeKalb County, Ga., a protection system has cut losses at one high school library from 346 volumes...
Some downtown business district planners are beginning to fight back with measures designed to restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...
Overgrown, eroded, but still discernible, the canals were built with extraordinary ingenuity and industriousness. (Habitual sloth was a capital crime among the Incas.) The winding route from the heights down into the lower slopes was designed to divert enough water to wet the terraced plots without overflowing or bursting through the stonework. Maintenance teams had to patrol the waterways year-round to keep them clear of silt and rubble. In the 16th century the Spanish came, dreaming of El Dorado, and forced farmers to harvest gold instead of maize. Irrigation systems like the one in Patallacta were let go. Soldiers...
...from a bold move, however, the PATCO dismissal signifies a cowardly attempt to intimidate unions and coerce them into unwitting collusion with Reagan's questionable economic policies. By heading off labor unrest at the pass, the Republicans hope to divert attention from measures which will harm most Americans...