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...multi-million dollar project--largest in Swiss history--is being financed by a Swiss conglomeration but built by foreign migrant workers. Although pay scales are adequate, no Swiss laborers could be found for the rigorous work, hence Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian workers were brought in for the mammoth construction job. All supplies must be flown in by chopper...
...striking is risky in recession-ridden South Africa. Black unemployment is running at 20%. Conspicuous among the Soweto residents who refused to strike were the migrant males, many of them Zulu tribesmen, who live in dormitory-like hostels and send most of their earnings to their families in the tribal homelands far away. The migrants were little impressed by either the young activists' efforts to organize political demonstrations or the government's recent concessions to black militancy, like the decision to allow Soweto residents to purchase outright more than half of the township's houses (for about...
...1930s developed the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance system of prepayment for hospitals and physicians. In the public sector, the Social Security mechanism and general tax revenues were used to pay the costs of the indigent sick, the disabled, the elderly and such special groups as veterans, migrant farmers and American Indians. A variety of amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935 culminated in Medicaid (a federal, state and local program for financing medical-care needs of the indigent sick) and Medicare (compulsory health insurance for the elderly). Today 21 million Americans aged 65 and over have such insurance...
...Swiss kept the jobless rate so low by concentrating layoffs among migrant workers. Some 110,000 migrants, mostly Italians, went home last year. "To put it crudely, our unemployment is being felt in Italy," says Hans Mast, economic adviser to Credit Suisse, a big bank. Switzerland's strengthened trade position, in the view of government financial officials, is a fluke attributable to the recession. Exports fell 5.4% in 1975, but imports dropped 20%. In order to keep their markets, many exporters had to cut prices, thus reducing their profits...
While all the Italian parties are interested in luring the migrant vote, the Communists, who received an estimated half of it in 1972, have launched the most effective campaign. Besides the Dear Pippo appeal, nearly every Italian working in the EEC has received a message from Berlinguer and a letter from the party office in his home town. Urged the Communist boss: "The vote you cast can contribute to saving Italy...