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...which of 700 pictures from Louis Farrakhan's controversial 1988 visit to Philadelphia to publish in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Working in TIME's picture department, Sutton has been combing through mountains of film each week to find the right images for such stories as a recent look at the plight of the world's refugees. In our New York bureau, David Muhlbaum of Middlebury College handles reporting on subjects as varied as the prospects for economic stability in Argentina and the consequences of posing for Playboy...
Around the world the U.S. is confronted by the plight of poor but friendly countries that have borrowed heavily and spent unwisely. A traditional American approach has been to make new loans so that the debtors can repay old ones. Debt forgiveness, by any name, has always been anathema, since most of the borrowed money comes from private banks whose directors and shareholders are not in the forgiveness business...
EDUCATION: The plight of the Palestinians...
...price of that failure is immense. Nicaragua is a wreck, inhabited by despair. A report secretly commissioned by the Sandinistas confirms the country's plight: with an annual per capita income of $300, Nicaragua is possibly the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment may reach 30% this year. Those who have skills to sell and some place to go get out: more than 10,000 have joined the contra counterrevolution, and at least 250,000 out of the population of 3.5 million have fled, many...
...moment, the slaughter of African elephants by poachers has pushed the whales' plight from the headlines, and in the case of the ivory trade, Japan has a better record of reform. In the mid-1980s, Japan accounted for as much as 70% of the final market for ivory products. In 1983 and 1984 alone, more than 135,000 elephant tusks were imported, mostly to be carved into signature seals called hanko. Then, as international complaints about the ivory trade mounted, Japan's dealers reversed their aggressive import policies. By 1988 ivory imports had been reduced by 75% from the peak...