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...budgets to human needs." The giant gathering, timed to coincide with the opening of the United Nations second special session on disarmament, which runs from June 7 to July 9, is the centerpiece of a week-long series of concerts, demonstrations, prayer meetings and teach-ins. The sponsors include myriad peace and disarmament organizations, church groups and community activists...
...American Express. The result has been a flood of novel investment and savings devices. Moreover, there has grown up a cacophony of conflicting claims that is bewildering investors. Even many money advisers in banks, brokerage houses and other financial institutions are having a difficult time keeping up with the myriad of different investment possibilities that have become available...
Whether the rift between the U.S. and its Latin neighbors will prove serious depends on how long the Falklands dispute lasts. While the U.S. and Britain are aligned against a Latin American nation, "Hispanidad," the tradition of Latin American solidarity, will remain at the fore, overshadowing a myriad of inter-American territorial and ideological disputes, like Argentina's quarrel with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Already there are mutterings within the Organization of American States about moving the headquarters of that hemispheric coalition out of Washington, or forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never...
...year, fully two-thirds through conversions rather than the birth rate. By the end of the century, Barrett projects, South Korea will be 42% Chris tian. The U.S. is the most disparate nation of all, Barrett concludes, with 2,050 denominations for its 161 million Christians, plus myriad non-Christians. It has the largest population of Jews in the world, 7.1 million. Between 1900 and 2000, classical Protestantism will have shrunk from two-thirds of the population to little more than one-third...
...hard to imagine a more dangerous agenda. With the wholesale destruction of North American streams and lakes at the hands of acid rain already underway, with every week bearing a host of new tales of illegal or forgotten chemical dumpings and with every new report of the myriad threats to health created by technological advances, the last thing this nation needs is the Administration's effort to contaminate more water and ruin more rivers and ponds...