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...years ago, a mere 35,000 women were in uniform, making up 1% of the nation's military personnel. In fact, they were limited by law to a maximum of 2% until that ceiling was abolished in 1969 because of the shortages caused by Viet Nam and the expanding role of women in the labor force. Today some 110,000 women constitute 5.5% of the services' 2 million uniformed members. Some 15,800 of the women are officers. It is projected that five years from now nearly 220,000 women will provide more than 10% of the armed...
...fact, the Pentagon now finds that it can recruit what it regards as high-quality females for about the same price as low-quality males. While it costs the Army about $3,700, the Marines $2,050, the Navy $1,950 and the Air Force $870 in advertising and other expenses to sign up a male secondary-school graduate who scores high on aptitude tests, the cost to all four services for an equally qualified woman is only $150. By 1982, the Pentagon estimates, the recruitment of more women will enable it to maintain its standards of quality and still...
...cost of living" movement has collected more than 1 million signatures in Sao Paulo alone on a petition demanding price freezes and wage hikes. At the same time, there is a potentially dangerous split among the generals: many of them oppose any further liberalization and object to the fact that Geisel himself selected a successor instead of seeking a consensus...
...vaguely, of the need to "create conditions for more effective management and responsible participation of the Andorran people in the affairs of their country." That raised hopes among Andorrans that their co-Princes may ultimately be willing to grant them more self-rule. Andorrans point with pride to the fact that their 559-year-old parliament is one of the oldest in Europe, and they increasingly resent the power the co-Princes' official delegates in Andorra have over their affairs...
...fact, Soviet scientists envision few of the problems that concern even pro-nuclear Americans. Most feel that their present system for handling low-level radioactive wastes provides ample protection. They are cooled off by storage in on-site "swimming pools" for three years, then shipped to a reprocessing plant where their radiation is reduced even further, and finally they are pumped into deep wells. The scientists also insist that their country's method of disposing of highly radioactive wastes, which are also stored underground, is adequate. They figure that Americans worry too much about waste...