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...cent of the votes cast. He defeated another peace candidate, Dennis Smith, who is now campaigning enthusiastically for Yaffe ("Bert Yaffe has proposed more creative legislation in the last four months than Mrs. Heckler has in four years"). Yaffe carried Fall River, the district's largest and poorest city (the unemployment rate there is 8.5 per cent) and his home, with 75 per cent of the vote...
...create an Estado Novo, a corporate state modeled on Mussolini's Italy. He forcibly imposed unity on the nation and created a secret police organization, PIDE, that harshly repressed dissent. He ran the economy with a stern, conservative hand, but his country remained the poorest in Western Europe. At the time of his retirement, Portugal's annual per-capita income was $454 (v. Spain's $663), and 40% of its 9,000,000 people were illiterate...
This wealth is not visible on the surface, however, where 3.5 million peasants live, most of them working the sandy soils in subsistance farming. Economically, Chad is presently one of the poorest countries in Africa...
...pressing problem involves Alaska's 57,000 Aleuts, Eskimos and Indians?one-fifth of the population. These natives are probably the U.S.'s poorest citizens. Their average life expectancy is 35 years; the village schools go no higher than the eighth grade. Spread over the state in 200 filthy, littered villages, they have little to do with the economy. Instead, they are patronized. "The typical Eskimo family," a joke runs, "consists of one father, one mother, three children, two anthropologists, one social worker, one economic-development specialist and two counselors...
...latest book, Two-Factor Theory: the Economics of Reality (coauthored by Patricia Hetter), Kelso maintains that the American system is "coming apart" because of its "defective financial and economic framework." One of his most potent arguments is historical. Until the close of the frontier, even the poorest laborer could acquire capital virtually free, in the form of land. "That opportunity motivated the building of the most powerful economy on earth," declares Kelso. Now that the free land is gone, he contends, the U.S. seems to have forgotten that "property is the only power capable of protecting the individual...