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...social profile of Watts has hardly changed. Unemployment stands at better than 20%, almost three times the national average, and more than the U.S. rates for either blacks (15%) or Hispanics (11.2%). About one-third of Watts families exist below the poverty line. The city and county human relations commissions report that the south-central area containing Watts had "the highest infant mortality rate, the lowest rate of immunization, the highest incidence of communicable disease . . . and the fewest doctors per capita in the county...
...impeachment vote in the Batasan as a mandate for his policies, will in fact call early elections. Opinion is divided, but leaders of the dozen opposition parties say that in the event of a snap election they are prepared for a showdown at the polls, where their candidates garnered one-third of the vote in the 1984 national assembly elections. Their major challenge will be to unite behind one candidate. Aquino's widow Corazon could pose the most serious threat to Marcos, but she has declined to run. Another possible candidate is Salvador Laurel, a longtime presidential aspirant...
...first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1967. Shortly thereafter, Siebert, who has her own firm, became the first woman to trade on the floor of the exchange. Though only a handful of women have become partners at major trading houses, about one-third of Wall Street's younger professionals are now female...
...midtown Manhattan, a parcel that he characteristically calls "the greatest piece of urban land in America--the greatest piece of land in the world." One hundred acres! In one spot in Manhattan! At the center of that plot, the developer announced last week, he intends to put up the world's tallest building, an office and apartment tower shooting up 1,670 ft., or 216 ft. higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago. One-third of a mile high! Not only that, but between now and the end of the century Trump plans to build another six tall apartment houses...
...Chicago's DuSable High School, controversy erupted when school officials decided to establish an on-campus health clinic, authorized to dispense contraceptives to students who have parental permission. The school, which serves one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods, is battling a veritable epidemic: each year about one-third of its 1,000 female students are pregnant. The clinic has elicited picketing and protest, mostly by religious and antiabortion groups, but the school has refused to back down. Says Principal Judith Steinhagen: "All I can say is, we're trying to keep some young ladies in school and off welfare...