Word: exoduses
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...that is now incorporated under Vermont state law as a full-fledged "nonprofit, educational and scientific society." The organization's elders claim no special credit for the dowsing revival. Nor do they cite a renaissance of American gullibility. Their official explanation: dowsers came in demand again with the exodus to the suburbs after World War II and the need for more drinking water. Commenting on skeptics, Norman Leighton, of Portland, Me. says: "If thickheaded clods would rather have laughter than water, it's all right with...
...thing that is most notably different about Laos today: there are fewer people. In proportion to the country's small population (roughly 3 million), the exodus has been staggeringly large. Since the spring of 1975, around 140,000 Laotians have fled to refugee camps in Thailand-in recent months, most of them by paying $150 to secure a nighttime passage on boats plying the Mekong River. Although Pathet Lao soldiers often shoot at those who attempt the crossing (four died in one incident two weeks ago), an estimated 2,500 to 4,000 people seek refuge in Thailand every...
...accessible suburbs, school districts with an enrollment of at least 20,000 students and a large minority population (more than 20%). Then he compared his figures with a projected loss of white students that would have taken place without forced busing, based on established demographic patterns of white exodus and predictable birth rates. The results were remarkably consistent...
Many critics call for an outright withdrawal from South Africa on the theory that a sudden exodus would undermine the Vorster regime. Says Franklin H. Williams, a black activist who was U.S. ambassador to Ghana in the late 1960s: "What American companies have done so far has been essentially cosmetic. The basic inhumanity of life for blacks in South Africa continues unabated." The New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of several Roman Catholic orders and Protestant denominations, urges a U.S. withdrawal unless, as Director Timothy Smith puts it, the government "takes steps to give full political...
...exodus could do more harm than good for nonwhites. American-owned businesses might be taken over by other multinationals, notably the Japanese, that are far less responsive to the blacks. Possibly the South African government would seize control of some companies and make the American owners deposit the proceeds of their forced sales in government securities...