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...G.O.P. fortunes in the fall, it is not clear that Reagan will suffer much politically. Interviewing the jobless across the nation last week, TIME correspondents found relatively few who blamed the President for their plight. Rudy Barker, 62, was laid off in 1980 from his job at a lumber mill in Willamina, Ore., and he has not worked since then. "All this started before Reagan," he says. "It's been coming on for the last two or three Presidents." Says Samuel Ehrenhalt, Middle Atlantic regional commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "A lot of people are just...
Since losing his job as a forklift driver at a mill in Molalla, Ore., last August, James Wittig, 35, has been scrambling for a job. He applied to work as an exterminator and tried to land a job laying gravel. "I'll try anything, but there's nothing," he says. "If there's a job open in Oregon, there's at least 100 people trying to get it." Wittig's wife works as a cook for $360 a month to support him and their two children, but it is not nearly enough. Says Wittig...
Exasperated, Ludwig refused to repay loans guaranteed by Brazil's National Economic Development Bank. These included $163 million owed to Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries for a $250 million floating pulp mill, and another $29 million to Lloyds Bank International...
...ALMANAC'S political commentary, if less omnipresent than his jibes at social behavior, are equally insightful. Baker writes of the Washington rumor mill...
...life Valley Forge Military Academy--where Taps was filmed--were not at all pleased by the final product. There was probably more to that sour reaction than simply confusion over an implausible plot. For all of its flaws, Taps is a good argument in favour of run-of-the-mill places called Central High...