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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taels of gold (worth about $900,000) for a defector flying a late-model TU-16 bomber to 500 taels (about $75,000) for a pilot with an obsolete cargo aircraft. So far, four pilots have qualified for rewards, the latest in July 1977. Mainland China offers higher prices - up to 7,000 taels (about $1,050,000) for a Nationalist pilot in a Phantom fighter - but so far there have been no takers...
...Meanwhile, chicanos deeply resent the success of black colleges and universities in getting federal aid. Says Los Angeles School Board Member Julian Nava: "There are 120 black [U.S.] colleges and universities receiving multimillion-dollar subsidies from Congress, but there isn't a single, goddamned Mexican-American institution of higher education." Actually, there are five-all small, struggling colleges, and all receiving little or no federal aid. But the point is that Nava and other Mexican Americans resent the blacks' preponderance-and that resentment does not bode well for racial harmony on the West Coast...
...also unwisely financed. By buying land outright (with money acquired from selling Government-backed bonds) and by building facilities before they were needed, developers saddled themselves with high fixed interest costs long before sales and rental income started flowing. In Park Forest South, for example, land costs were 89% higher than expected, while sales for the first five years were 58% lower than expected. Developers of seven HUD-financed new towns eventually defaulted on interest payments, leaving the agency to pay bondholders $149 million and take title to the bankrupt burgs...
...Muncie woman, by the time of their second book, Munsonians had dropped their opposition to working women and had begun to educate girls for good jobs. Now, says a member of the Middletown III team, C. Bradford Chappell of Brigham Young, Middletown daughters "are better educated and in higher-status occupations than either of their parents." Teen-age girls, homebodies in 1924, now spend about as much time away from their parents as teen-age boys...
Emphasizing what he called a "growing concern about increased government regulation," Bok described Harvard's work to augment public policy learning as "an effort to fill the missing link in higher education...