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There is no apparent unifying organization on the Left comparable to the Students for a Democratic Society, which coordinated the efforts of more than 100,000 students at its peak in the late Sixties. Whether one will emerge and survive in this decade is largely a matter of chance and personalities--will the right leaders be in the right places if Reagan blunders into war, for instance. In the meantime, more people probably know more about danger spots like El Salvador in 1982 than they did in 1962, when few could even place Vietnam...
...lack of jubilation is fresh memories of previous false starts in beating inflation. Most notably, as a result of the last deep recession, the inflation rate as measured by the CPI tumbled from 12.2% in 1974 to 4.8% in 1976-only to roar back up to a postwar peak of 13.3% in 1979. And while there is good reason to believe that the gains this time may be more lasting, the cost has proved to be fully as painful as everyone was predicting a year...
Arms procurement is projected to grow 16% annually through 1987, vs. a 14% rate of increase during the peak Viet Nam War years. Injecting all those dollars into defense-related industries could wind up being like installing a turbocharger on the engine of a Model T. Since military spending increases first began to tail off in the 1970s, the industry's infrastructure has seriously eroded. Hundreds of small foundries that made vital metal castings have gone bankrupt or have been forced to close by the Environmental Protection Agency (for excessive dust, smoke and chemical byproducts). Traditional smokestack industries such...
There, on the stark, sun-parched slopes of the Kuh-e Malek Siah Mountain, was the Soviet-Iranian listening post. Using helicopters, the Soviets had transported antennae to a spot near the summit of the mountain. At the foot of the peak were parked ten huge 24-wheel trucks. They were sophisticated surveillance stations equipped with electronic gear that receives signals from the equipment above. The writing on the spy trucks was in Russian letters. Near by were 30 Iranian army British-made Chieftain tanks...
Smokers who have gone to college are almost twice as likely to break the habit eventually as noncollege smokers. Smoking among men reached a high in 1955 when almost 53% of American men smoked. For women, the peak year was 1966, when 33% were cigarette users. Today 37% of men and 29% of women use tobacco regularly. Teenagers, particularly girls, were of special concern in the 1970s when they began to take up smoking in record numbers, but the young appear to be cutting down a bit now. In another study published last week (see following story) researchers...