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Marquette Park in southwestern Chicago is one of the city's largest green spaces-a 321-acre expanse of grassy meadows, tennis courts, fishing lagoons and a golf course. Surrounding the park is a white "ethnic" community of 11,000 Lithuanian, Irish and Polish families-a vigorous old neighborhood that has tenaciously barred blacks and preserved itself as one of the city's last desirable white areas...
South Africa, the world's largest gold producer, is being hurt most. The price drop will cost it at least $200 million in potential export earnings this year, worsening an already serious balance of payments deficit (running at about $1.9 billion on current account this year). Last week South Africa moved to cut imports; beginning Aug. 2, the government will require importers to deposit 20% of the price of certain foreign goods with the treasury for six months, at no interest. The unemployment rate among the nation's black workers has already hit 20%; layoffs at the gold...
...from the Japanese army who thought World War II was still going on long after it was over, Wall Street traders are super-sensitive these days about anything resembling the click of a rifle bolt. Take the case of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the nation's largest chemical producer. Four weeks ago, Du Pont announced that it would report profits for the second quarter slightly lower than those earned in the first three months of the year. Nervous investors took that as an indication that the recovery of the chemical industry had hit a snag, and sold...
...nuclear fuel to a nation that has demonstrated its intention to acquire nuclear weapons is to send the wrong signal to the rest of the world." He and other opponents of the sale want the U.S. to use enriched uranium-the nation is still the world's largest supplier-to demand concessions. As one condition of sale, for example, India might be required to sign the nonproliferation treaty...
...endowment is Australia's largest single contribution to the celebration of the U.S. bicentennial...