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...Songkhla boat camp in southern Thailand, where nearly 5,000 Vietnamese live on a section of ant-infested beach, people use the privies when the water is high so that the falling tide will lessen the stench. On the island of Bidong, site of Malaysia's largest camp, conditions were considered critical six months ago when the camp's population was 15,000. Today 45,000 people are crowded into 30 acres. French doctors aboard a privately chartered hospital ship stationed offshore have asked Pope John Paul II to visit Bidong, adding: "On this island today beats...
...called Refugees International is urging the U.S. and other countries to provide emergency facilities, such as abandoned government bases, to be used for housing refugees temporarily until permanent homes can be found. Malaysia is asking the U.S. to supply processing centers. Malaysia hopes that Indonesia will provide the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees with an island capable of receiving as many as 200,000 refugees as a processing center. The ASEAN members will ask Western nations to guarantee that any refugee placed on the island would be accepted for resettlement within three to five years...
...feeling of inferiority to the Soviet system. Many American analysts would disagree, believing that the U.S. has become complacent because of its sense of military superiority to the U.S.S.R. But Aron maintains that Westerners sometimes feel that the Soviet leaders "possess an infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe by the Third World's pervasive contempt for the West. Aron believes that the tendency of Africans and Latin Americans to blame the persistence of poverty on colonialism...
...Chemical Corp., and the Steelworkers Union in 1974, charging that he had been illegally excluded from a training program for higher paying skilled jobs, such as electrician and repairman, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. Though Weber won in two lower courts, he lost in the high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether or not it has had discriminatory job practices in the past, a company can use affirmative-action programs to remedy "manifest racial imbalance...
...hopes of U.S. farmers are as high as an elephant's eye. After several years of bumper crops that left growers dissatisfied with their incomes, they face the unusual and happy prospect of enjoying both substantial grain harvests and rising prices. The key reason for the price surge: widespread expectations in the commodity markets that the Soviet Union may go on another grain-buying binge, in part to make up for an expectedly poor crop this year. That could cause worldwide demand to outstrip production and lead to shortages. Such speculation has driven up prices for corn, wheat...