Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice for the Europeans in Rhodesia is not between handing over and hanging on. It is between a chance of survival and certain suicide." That ominous warning from London's conservative Daily Mail was echoed in many Western and African ministries last week. But if Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith got the message, he failed to heed it. Instead, the embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms...
...black majority. After Pretoria's military misadventure in Angola, South Africans are chary of being sucked into another no-win situation. Vorster's response to the "state of war" last week was cautious, and he carefully avoided taking sides. But South Africa's influential Financial Mail minced no words about what his course should be. The only way to stop the dangerous chain of events that threatened to drag South Africa into war, the magazine editorialized, was for Vorster to "put a gun to Smith's head: settle or quit...
...York City a year ago, paid an added dividend: many of the customers tried to impress the supposedly Mafia-connected fences with tales of crimes they had got away with. Their boasts-plus the loot-have led to 10,000 investigations including murder, bank robbery, hijacking and mail theft...
...year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send and receive their mail, Bailar warned, "we are heading for potential disaster...
Slumping Volume. Bailar's fears are well founded. Inflation has kicked up the service's operating costs at the same time that recession and rate increases have reduced mail volume for the first time since the Depression. Volume, which hit a peak of 90 billion pieces in 1974, dropped by 1% last year and is expected to slump to about 84 billion pieces over the next five years. Mailings will be held down in the future by, among other things, the expanding use of electronic funds transfers. The Social Security Administration is already crediting some payments to recipients...