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...latest round of heavy fighting, which began during the last week of January around Harar, the Ethiopians say they have lost 500 to 700 dead and 1,500 wounded and have killed some 2,000 Somali army regulars. The actual figures are almost certainly higher, but the Ethiopian claim to have taken only 17 prisoners is probably accurate: both sides expect their soldiers to die fighting, and each side claims the other has special squads to eliminate troops that surrender...
...small West Virginia town where her parents worked in the coal mining and glass industries, as their parents had. During the Great Depression of the '30s, the family moved to Charleston, West Virginia, for factory jobs. The move to the city opened up "very unusual opportunities" for Daugherty; the higher quality of schooling in the city led to scholarships and a Biblical Studies degree at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. After that, Daugherty went on to graduate school in Richmond, Virginia, and to three years of Presbyterian Church missionary work in Brazil. In the early '60s Daugherty directed religious education...
...never escaped the legacy of the Revolution. The same political and social struggles that emerged in those turbulent years have continued to play themselves out. In addition, a peculiar French individualism, a distaste for resolving conflicts on a face-to-face basis, and the desire to turn to a higher authority to arbitrate disputes have also been inherited from the past. This French form of authority--which can also explain the dearth of intermediary associations between the individual and the state--has created its own built-in problems. The state is often isolated from the French citizens...
Precisely such wildcat strikes have long hobbled the coal industry and prevented it from attaining higher productivity. Indeed, the White House, looking forward to new heights of output from the miners, said nothing about the settlement's obvious inflationary effects...
...civilian employment, women are not much better off. Only a third of them work outside the home, mostly in lower-paying jobs. Women account for only 9% of the higher-grade civil service positions, 2% of full professors, 1% of the nation's engineers. Only 6% of working women are employers or self-employed. Though the law calls for equal pay for equal work, many women are paid less than men for similar tasks, and, with a few exceptions, women are legally barred from nighttime work on the theory that it is potentially injurious to their health...