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...than rosy: Omar, having failed two sets of exams, does household chores all day for his widowed father, and Johnny, living in an abandoned building, has to keep one step ahead of some burly evictors. But Omar's Uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) comes to the rescue and agrees to employ his nephew, eventually allowing him to manage the eponymous laundrette, at that point nothing more than an unprofitable hangout for skinheads and other local riffraff...
...Soviet missions to the United Nations in New York City employ more people than the next two biggest delegations, those of the U.S. and China, combined? Because, Washington bluntly charged last week, many of the supposed Soviet diplomats are really spies. The accusation was contained in an equally blunt order: over the next two years, Moscow's three missions (two officially represent the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Republics) must reduce their staffs from a present total of 275 to 170. The Soviets may choose who stays and who goes; if they do not, the U.S. will make the decision...
...streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted to turning a quick quid, and in areas like South London there is a new caste system, with the immigrants running things and the working-class white "natives" in their employ. The Pakistanis and , the punks are inverting colonialism and reinventing capitalism. The empire has come home, and on both sides, proximity breeds contempt...
Onetime liberal activists who learned grass-roots organizing for such causes as opposition to the Viet Nam War now employ these same techniques on behalf of business clients. Robert Beckel, Walter Mondale's campaign manager in 1984, has set up an organization with the grandiose title of the Alliance to Save the Ocean. Its aim is to stop the burning of toxic wastes at sea. Beckel's fee is being paid by Rollins Environmental Services, a waste-disposal company that burns toxic waste on land...
Some sniffle centers employ nurses or other medically trained personnel who know how to treat illnesses and keep them from spreading. Chicken Soup, a nonprofit center that opened in Minneapolis last October, separates children into the Sniffles Room for colds, the Popsicle Room for stomach flu and the Polka Dot Room for chicken...