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...turned the earth into an elaborately sophisticated armed camp. During 1969-70, the money that human beings spent on the means of killing one another rose to an alltime peak of $204 billion-as much as the income produced in a year by the 1.8 billion people in the poorer half of the world's population...
...face the need to increase the $250 million a year in foreign aid that it now gives to the combined wings of the country. East Pakistan has little industry to speak of, and the world demand for jute is gradually dropping. West Pakistan will also be left smaller and poorer, though it now has the beginnings of an industrial base, consisting primarily of textile mills...
Explo '71. Despite this endemic hostility, few Ulster Catholics would readily give up the British welfare-state benefits available in Northern Ireland for life in the poorer Republic of Ireland. "Why don't I go down South?" asked a Belfast longshoreman. "That's just what the Prods want us to do. Well, it's our country too." But with distrust turning more and more into open hostility and with minor street incidents turning into major riots, the prospect of civil war is becoming ever more likely...
...crime is a major concern. Questioned more directly, however, 43% admitted that crime is on the increase in their community and 32% said they do not feel it is safe to walk around at night. (That proportion rises to 46% among women and 57% among nonwhites, who live in poorer neighborhoods just as they do in the city.) One out of four said that places they once visited at night are now off limits because they are not safe. Over 90% agree that "government at all levels should get much tougher on the subject of crime and law and order...
...stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been more successful-or felt poorer...