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...sent to the bathroom to perform my ablutions as a Muslim before the execution. There I met two other condemned political prisoners. One said they had both tried and failed to squeeze through a narrow opening into what looked like a ventilating shaft. To make a ladder for me, one stood on the other's shoulders. I climbed them both and just scraped through the hole. I am thin as it is, and the loss of 40 Ibs. under torture helped...
Labor union leaders and many politicians charge that the uninvited foreigners have taken jobs away from Americans and flattened wages at the lower end of the economic ladder. Says Harold Washington, a black Congressman from Chicago: "The mere presence of a large number of illegal aliens is depressing wages generally, and forcing unskilled blacks to take dirtier, lower-paying jobs." In most industries that employ large numbers of menial workers, labor law violations can be found. Some of the worst offenders...
...line New England firm that had initially built and continued to own the dam, with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy-equipment company (1980 sales: $613 million). Financing for the $28 million...
...with reason. Reuben Mattus, who is 68 and white-whiskered now, helped his widowed mother Leah sell her lemon ices in the South Bronx when he was a small boy, and he has continued to follow the ice-cream business. Competition from big manufacturers forced him up the quality ladder. He raised his butterfat content to 12%, from the customary U.S.-regulated minimum of 10% for vanilla, and was successful for a while. The opposition caught on and, he says, began to undercut him with illegal discounts and credit deals. So he decided to go where the chains could...
...away. Good idea -but it reckons without simple psychological fact. In civilian life these chaps were professional athletes, for whom the only wins and losses that counted were on the playing fields. So halfway to freedom somebody says, "Wait a minute, we can beat these guys." Back up the ladder and into the stadium they go, in search of at least a moral victory and, as none of them would express it, an assertion of civilian values-their camp leaders are against cooperating in a propagandizable sporting event, all for the escape-over military necessity...