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...TIME'S Herman Nickel. "Surveys reveal that well over 1 million Britons [out of a total population of 56 million] now express a firm intention of emigrating; 4.5 million are considering it. There are long queues waiting for immigration permits outside the Canadian and Australian High Commissions. An exodus of the sizable American community has already begun...
Work Force. Their future in Portugal is very much in doubt. The home-bound exodus could hardly have occurred at a worse time for the country's faltering economy. The country's work force is only about 3 million, and unemployment has been rising rapidly. Hundreds of small businesses have closed, and large companies are not expanding. Says one Lisbon businessman with companies in Africa: "We could not employ in Portugal more than a fraction of our people from down there who have asked us for jobs...
...working to bring about a multiracial government, the territory's hard-core white taxi drivers' union advertised for black drivers for the first time. Meanwhile, Laurengo Marques' liberal white Democratic Union came out in support of a Frelimo government. That organization mapped plans to stem the exodus of skilled whites. As Mozambican Samuel Ihanga put it: "At last Africans can run their own country. But we don't want the whites to go. We need everybody...
...invasion of Cyprus, experts expected nothing more than the replacement of one general by another. Or, they feared, younger ultranationalist officers bent on war against Turkey and unification of Cyprus and Greece might attempt a coup and make Greece even more militant and authoritarian. Instead, there was a mass exodus of almost the entire military cadre from the government...
...many other big cities, the exodus of white middle-class residents to the suburbs has left Detroit with a school enrollment that is 70% black. Four years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sued to equalize the racial composition of schools within Detroit's city limits. Federal District Judge Stephen D. Roth (who died three weeks ago at the age of 66) approved of that goal, but went even further; he ordered the busing of thousands of Detroit's black students to classes in 53 school systems outside city limits, including such upper-class...