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This is hardly news to arms experts, who know that Israel has become the world's seventh largest armaments exporter (after the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, Britain, West Germany and Italy). Its arms and military software sales have doubled in five years, and in 1982 exceeded $1.2 billion. Of this amount, some $150 million went to South America, principally to Argentina and Peru. Only about $20 million worth of weapons and military training programs were sold to Central America last year, but the figure is expected to reach $45 million to $50 million this year...
...popular movies: M*A*S*H and Julia). The telephones have crank handles and are operated by a sole switchboard. The brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week, is still referred to as "the 365," meaning that people roast it and stew it and chew it 365 days a year...
...opposite page attests, the biggest oil producer in the world by far is not Saudi Arabia, or even the Persian Gulf nations combined, but the Soviet Union, which is pumping at the rate of 12 million bbl. per day. The U.S.S.R. is at present also the world's largest oil exporter (more than 3 million bbl. per day), and while most of its oil is sold to Eastern Europe and Cuba, more than 1 million bbl. per day go to Western Europe, and that figure is growing...
...Harvard's solution to these logistical problems has been to draw potential donors into the administrative processes as much as possible. Like so much of the University's administration, the Harvard Campaign is a paragon of successful decentralization. And at each stage of the process, the alumni with the largest giving potential--the top 1 percent who would donate 75 of the funds--have been involved intimately...
...issue has sparked the largest student demonstration at Penn in several years, and some university officials have called for a permanent ban on the fraternity...