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...have been churning out new explanations for America's "deindustrialization" and prescribing solutions to it about as fast as companies have been laying off workers. With The Deindustrialization of America, Boston College's Barry Bluestone and MIT's Bennett Karrison add to this growing literature, which includes everything from Lester Thurow's baleful Zero-Sum Society to the corporatist musings of Felix Rohatyn in the New York Review of Books to Ezra Vogel's jealous Japan as Number...
...Lester Green, 45, a Protestant missionary, climbs out of his Land Rover near the village of Lolwa, deep inside the Ituri rainforest. In fluent Ki-Swahili, he asks where he might find the Walese Pygmy tribes. Soon a guide is hacking his way through the dense undergrowth. Green follows, Bible in hand...
...DIED. Lester Roloff, 68, fiery fundamentalist preacher whose radio-based ministry financed controversy-ridden homes for rebellious children; when his private plane crashed, also killing four others; near Normangee, Texas. In his homes, Roloff enforced hard-nosed "godlines" (no coffee, newspapers, aspirins or TV), sometimes with whipping and paddling. To charges of excessive harshness, Roloff replied, "There's nothing wrong with handcuffing a girl to keep her from going to hell...
...trip was U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz's first formal visit abroad, and also a chance for a college reunion. For six hours Shultz closeted himself in Ottawa's Lester B. Pearson Building with a fellow student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Canadian External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen. When they emerged from their meeting, the atmosphere was almost chummy. The two men agreed that they would henceforth consult four times a year, and they tried to make some progress in resolving the deadlocked cross-border dispute over "acid rain," industrial pollution that destroys life in lakes...
...year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and few seem likely to continue for long. A 19-day strike ended in Teaneck, N.J., last week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups of teachers during the day. When an intransigent board of education failed to produce a quorum for a crucial bargaining session, the judge pressured...