Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile south of Beth-El is the Palestinian town of Al-Bireh (pop. 22,000). Last month the Israeli military governor issued an order closing 7,000 dunams (1,750 acres) just north of Al-Bireh to Arab development and construction. The order further decreed that all construction work presently under way must be stopped. Al-Bireh officials and residents are angry because the ruling effectively prevents any kind of expansion for the town's growing population...
...prosperous Western Europeans, huddled like refugees on the packed fringes of the Mediterranean. They are taking part in a ritual, exercising a civil right, and in the process hungrily consummating a winter's yearnings. The summer vacation season is upon them, draining the gray, rainy cities of the north, flooding the beaches of Spain's Costa del Sol, France's Côte d'Azur, Italy's Capri and the Greek islands...
Wilson F. Minor, 56, bought the North side Reporter, a small suburban weekly, in 1973. With the help of a handful of regular advertisers and a skeleton staff, he has transformed it into the still small but unabashedly aggressive Capital Reporter (circ. 6,000). Politics is the paper's forte, and Minor's love. His uncanny eye for wrongdoing, along with a slew of sources developed during his 30 years with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has breathed life into the paper's catchy motto: ONCE A WEEK, BUT NEVER WEAKLY...
...letter to shareholders, Chairman John Riccardo and President Eugene Cafiero spoke of a need to concentrate the company's resources in North America. The point could be put more bluntly: Chrysler is so strapped for cash to spend at home that it can no longer afford aspirations to global power. Its share of the U.S. market has dropped to 12.8% this year, from 16.2% in 1970, and it must spend $7.5 billion over the next five years to expand and modernize its U.S. plants. It has no hope of financing those expenditures out of depreciation and retained profits...
...combined income of about $75,000 a year as attorneys for two Chicago law firms. They earn far more than their parents, whom they now help support. But they have little savings, and last year borrowed to pay their taxes. They live in a comfortable home on the affluent North Shore, for which they paid $67,000 in 1975. Even with debts from their college days, they manage to vacation in Paris and San Francisco. "We are able to be self-indulgent," says Betty. "I don't worry if I see a dress that costs a lot." Adds John...