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...most of the damage will probably be concentrated in the older industrial areas of the Northeast and Midwest, much as in 1975, the slump is likely to hit all areas of the nation. Sagging housing starts are being felt in furniture and textile factories throughout the South, and the Northwest's aerospace industry will be only as strong as its airline customers...
...planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says, we will soon become a world governed...
...also has kin in either the police or army. Many of the injured in the old bazaar, where some of the most vicious fighting went on, literally bled to death from leg wounds; their Afghan soldier brothers had aimed low in order to maim rather than kill. In the northwest part of the city, a group of protesters wielding sticks and captured guns marched on the Kharga military barracks and urged the Afghan unit there to disband. According to witnesses, at least 200 Afghan army personnel defected and joined the throng...
Their world is the sprawling 4,100-inmate Louisiana state prison complex in Angola, 35 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Their voice is the Angolite, the most probing and literate inmate publication in the U.S. Last week Rideau, 38, and Sinclair, 35, both convicted murderers serving life terms, won a prestigious George Polk Award for special-interest reporting. One article cited was Rideau's chilling account of homosexual rape and subjugation behind bars. Another story submitted to the Polk judges was an investigative report by Sinclair raising the possibility of misfeasance in the murder of a prisoner five years...
...Russian Republic, lavished praise on the executive responsible for the plant's construction. A year after the factory was officially in operation, Pravda called the plant "a thing of beauty, the largest in the industry, meeting the needs of all the collective and state farms of the Northwest." Raved the party newspaper: "Just look at the blueprints! You will see an industrial miracle...