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AIR POLLUTION has generally increased since 1969. However, emissions from autos, a major source of air pollution, "have apparently reached the peak level," and may now be on the decline as older cars are replaced by newer ones with antipollution devices. There has also been a slight drop in solid...
Inflation is also stubborn because more and more Americans work for the Government or in service industries, where wage rises are hard to offset by rises in productivity. Public service employees have rapidly unionized and have often called illegal but successful strikes. Governments at all levels are prone to cave...
Last year Hiroshima Mayor Setsuo Yamada asked the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for information about the American victims. None was forthcoming. "If it is only possible to get any of these identified," he says, "I would ask our municipal assembly to take steps to enable us to enshrine them in...
Ever since he won last September's presidential election with just 36.3% of the vote in a three-way race, Salvador Allende Gossens has been anxious to widen his slim popular margin. Last April his Popular Unity coalition of Socialists, Communists and Radicals collected an impressive 50.8% of the...
OBSOLETE WORK RULES. Countless labor-union featherbedding practices pad the payrolls and push productivity down in construction, printing and municipal services. The primary issue in last week's strike against some railroads by the United Transportation Union was a half-century-old work rule forcing them to pay a...