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...hardware; arms spending currently absorbs 28% of the Egyptian national budget. After becoming President in 1970, Anwar Sadat began to dismantle Gamal Abdel Nasser's cumbersome socialist state and once again invited foreign investment. But the response has not even been as loud as a whisper. Last year, in order to pay off short-term debts, more capital flowed out of the country than into it. The balance of trade deficit is now equal to a fifth of the gross national product ($13.7 billion a year). This is something close to an economic impossibility, and Egypt is technically bankrupt...
Some steps toward disarmament are being taken by OSHA'S new boss, Eula Bingham, 48, a former science professor at the University of Cincinnati. Apparently she has heeded President Carter's executive order of last November calling for "simple and clear regulations" and less interference with individuals and organizations. She pared by half the number of OSHA forms that employers must fill out, and virtually eliminated them for small businessmen who employ ten or fewer people. In December, she announced that OSHA is abolishing 1,100 of its more than 10,000 regulations; her hit list will require more than...
...neighborhood elementary school, where false fire alarms were set off a dozen times a day, teachers came to school stoned, and "all we were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged her a rebel and sent her anonymous hate letters. Collins finally quit in frustration and, using the money she had contributed to the pension fund (about $5,000), opened Westside in 1975 in one room of her family...
...proposals, carried to Washington by Nobuhiko Ushiba, Japan's new Minister of External Economic Affairs, were put together in response to intense U.S. pressure on Japan to reduce its trade barriers and stimulate its economy in order to boost demand for imports. But the concessions were far less significant than American officials wanted. To Robert Strauss, the President's chief trade negotiator, the proposals "fall considerably short of what this Government feels is necessary." Not surprisingly, Ushiba himself, in a burst of frankness, had warned reporters before leaving Japan that his proposals would not satisfy the Americans...
...brought as much joy to the baseball Establishment as it did to Denverites. For the move signaled the departure from baseball of Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley after nearly two decades as resident curmudgeon of the national pastime. The sale-temporarily blocked last week by a federal court restraining order obtained by the Oakland Coliseum-must be okayed by ten of the American League's 14 owners. But approval should be quickly forthcoming from men who have little love for Finley and his maverick behavior...