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...uncertain about what the Postal Service should be. He let people go, and then, when operations deteriorated, hired others to take their place. The Postal Service, which spends 85% of its budget on labor, now employs 700,000, making it, after the Bell System, the nation's second largest corporate employer...
William J. LeMessurier '47, a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, said yesterday that his firm. LeMessurier Associates, is working with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in designing what will be the largest military facility in Saudi Arabia...
Launching Pad. Some 1,044 U.N. delegates, most of whom were women, and 5,000 other assorted feminists and interested spectators poured into macho Mexico for what was billed by planners as "the world's largest consciousness-raising group." The consciousness-raisers present included one female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and about a dozen wives of national leaders, promptly dubbed "wifey-poos" by disdainful feminists. Among them: Jehan Sadat of Egypt, Nusrat Bhutto of Pakistan, Leah Rabin of Israel, and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines...
When they arrived with their wives and children in Sutherland, Neb., last month, neither Pham Tuong Do nor Tran Van Khang was surprised by the obvious differences between the tiny (pop. 840) corn-country community and their native Can Tho, second largest city in South Viet Nam. But they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit...
Asian Dependent. Fukuda is under more pressure abroad, from nations that would like to see the world's third largest economy pumped up faster so that the Japanese can buy more foreign products. At a recent meeting of the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Japan was criticized indirectly for being overly preoccupied with its domestic economy to the detriment of other Asian nations; those countries have grown dependent on Japanese growth for their own prosperity. Fukuda recognizes that Japan can ill afford beggar-thy-neighbor policies. "From now on, we all have to cooperate...