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...state proclaimed the caste system illegal in 1871, but prejudice did not yield to government fiat. On the average, buraku-min are less well educated than their countrymen, and their children test 16 IQ points lower than other Japanese.* About 7% of buraku families are on relief, more than twice the national average, and juvenile delinquency is 3/2 times higher among them than among other Japanese youths. According to Sueo Murakoshi, an outcast who surmounted the system to become a professor of sociology at Osaka City University and secretary-general of the Buraku Problem Research Institute: "Some high school classes...
...Bush said that the vote enhanced the U.N.'s "image of impotence." The organization's action-or inaction-did something even worse. It was a kind of ratification for the anarchic notion that even the most despicable crime can be rationalized as a "political act" simply by fiat of the perpetrator...
Foreign companies have been enticed into Spain by low taxes, cheap credit and guarantees that they could repatriate capital and profits; as a result, Chrysler, Fiat, ITT, Firestone, British Leyland and 3M Co. are among those that have invested heavily. In return, the foreign-owned companies have trained Spanish managers; for the first time the country has the beginnings of an entrepreneurial class. As a newcomer to industrialization, Spain also has benefited from up-to-date plant and equipment, giving it a competitive edge on countries like Britain that industrialized long...
...said last week, "Jackie knew that photographers have shot at that particular location more than once. If she didn't want to be photographed, she should not have exhibited herself." Others, more concerned with taste and privacy, might echo Turin's La Stampa, owned by Fiat Chief Gianni Agnelli, a longtime friend of Jackie's: "Italy would have done better not to publish those pictures...
...been racing through the West since it was introduced about two years ago. In California, Mazda is already the fourth-biggest-selling import, ahead of Fiat and Volvo. U.S. sales have grown from almost nothing in 1970 to an estimated 60,000 this year, and are expected by company officers to at least double next year. Mazda officials expect the operation to reach optimum size in 1975, with 655 dealers selling 300,000 cars annually. That could well put Mazda among the top five car sellers, about even with American Motors...