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...Letter to the Harvard Community," SASC sets down its rationale behind Cambridge's newest eyesore. Shantytowns such as SASC's, we are told, symbolize the economic hardship of the South African Black. SASC, however, seems not to realize that it is the political rights of Blacks that are most abused and therefore it is not economic issues which must be dealt with first--in economic terms, South African Blacks are significantly better off than their counterparts in other African nations...
While learning their lessons, though, the industrial nations suffered great economic hardship. The price increase virtually sucked money out of the countries as fast as they could print it, which slowed growth and aggravated inflation and unemployment. Many Western countries finally began to break free of that pattern this year, thanks to falling interest rates and the decline in oil prices. Conservation measures now enable the industrial economies to grow without increasing energy use at the same rate. Between 1973 and 1985, the U.S. economy expanded by almost one-third while energy consumption fell slightly. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief...
...even more pressing hardship is the military draft. Since Nicaragua imposed its first ever draft two years ago, tens of thousands of young men have been called into service. To evade the draft, many have fled the country. Last October the government added a military-reserve draft that enrolls men between the ages of 25 and 40. Many of these men have families, and they fear that they will be called into active combat. "When they give you a uniform and a pair of boots," says Walter Caracas, 27, a graphics designer in the government craft department, "you know...
...Sawtooths are magnificent, jagged mountains, precisely described by their name, but their high valleys and lightly forested benchlands are gentle enough so that the five-mile march to the first hut at 6,900 ft. is no hardship, even for inexperienced skiers. Leonard has taken clients as young as six and as old as 70 over the route, he says, and only rarely has anyone had difficulty...
...spending of the nation's petrowealth. Libya's dependence on foreign capital and technical expertise is also critical. Undermining Khadafy's economic position now by shutting him out of Western markets and investments may be just as good as killing him outright; increasing unrest in Libya caused by escalating hardship might produce the same result. If he fears such an outcome, he might make overtures to Western governments promising to stop his terrorist activities. At the very least, Khadafy might curb his actions in the hope of avoiding more severe reprisals...