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...winds of this economic change are swirling in different directions across the U.S. In the traditional Midwest industrial heartland, employment offices are jammed with discouraged job seekers, FOR SALE signs dot the lawns of once proud neighborhoods, and retail shops are closing because regular customers no longer have extra money to spend. Unemployment rates stand at 14.9% in Michigan and 13% in Ohio, sharply above the national level of 10.2%. Yet in many other areas the rise of high-tech companies has spawned pockets of booming growth: the Route 128 strip around Boston, California's Silicon Valley...
...Disney's home town of Marceline, Mo. When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...
...Defense Minister José GuillermoGarcia, have shown neither resolve nor proficiency. Ignoring U.S. advice, the Salvadoran military has wasted its energy in useless sweeps of remote hinterland areas, while the guerrillas have scored easy but psychologically important victories by briefly occupying towns in the country's economic heartland. A guerrilla campaign of economic devastation continues practically undeterred; last week much of the country was plunged once again into temporary darkness after guerrilla forces blew up a series of electrical power lines...
...leaders, loved feint and diversion. "Periphery pecking," the Americans called it, a strategy they felt wasted lives, time and matériel even as Germany rushed ahead with new weapons, including a possible atomic bomb. Churchill got his way in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, but Wedemeyer's heartland strategy was what focused Allied might in the decisive battle. To this day Wedemeyer believes that the Allies squandered a splendid opportunity by not invading in 1943. Had they occupied Europe and stopped the Soviets at their border, he says, the Allies could have created conditions for self-determination...
...struggle over the troubled future of Central America grew fiercer last week. In El Salvador, Marxist guerrillas scored a psychological triumph with a surprise raid on the country's economic heartland; for the first time a U.S. military adviser was wounded. In Honduras, a major display of U.S. military logistics was intended to send an intimidating message to neighboring Nicaragua's Sandinista government. At the same time, the covert border war against the Sandinistas heated up, even though the Marxist leadership seemed more entrenched than ever. Reports from the scenes of battle...