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Philippines. Reports continue to filter out about clashes in the southernmost islands of the Philippines between 'Moslem insurgents' and government troops. Unless Saladin or Haroon al-Rashid have been reincarnated, something more than the importance of Mohammed is at issue here. Perhaps it is the dictatorial and repressive American-backed regime of Ferdinand Marcos, who will run for office next year in a special plebescite--which, if held, would violate the nation's constitution...
...Chinese fear that Russian interests may filter into the government that gains control, Salisbury said, and a friendship with the United States could buffer China from Russian influence...
...more serious problems would arise. The new jobs created by industrialization would swell the state's population from its present 700,000 to more than 1,000,000, causing a need for more services and more taxes to pay for them. Since the best antipollution devices available cannot filter out all the fine particles that go up the stacks or out the water-discharge pipes of new plants, there would also be more pollution...
...Agency for International Development (AID) betrayed the original objectives of the Alliance. Instead of bettering social conditions, the loans started to aim towards narrowly-defined economic development. The theory is that the growth of business will bring a stable currency and more jobs. The benefits will filter down to the lower classes. Loans thus focused on large-scale enterprises. If a democratic government was economically unstable, it did not get a loan...
...expanding files. The types of persons on whom such information is kept should-be sharply restricted and the control over the dissemination of such information tightened. Almost any Government agency, as well as banks and insurance companies, can get the arrest record of any prospective employee. These records often filter into credit agencies. Yet when an arrest is found unwarranted or a person is declared innocent of a crime, the FBI rarely corrects the record. At a minimum, individuals should be allowed to challenge any false information from FBI files that is used against them...