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Commercially, the city is fast regaining its old hustle. Rubble has been cleared from most streets; with it went a noxious haze that had shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume...
...Jamaicans seem to enjoy their stint at Bolton. For Trevor Brown, 20, a native of Portland, Jamaica, apple picking has been a steady and therefore welcome source of income for the past four years. At home, Brown guides tourists on a bamboo raft down the Rio Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert Hutchinson, 28, a truck farmer back...
...from the rest and he could not have tea with other players afterward. Woods won the championship He may not leave the town limits of East London (50 square miles) during his ban and is therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when friends are present...
...I.L.A. is now demanding that all port guarantees be brought closer to the New York level. Though New York employers naturally do not object, those in the other ports do, and as a result, the industry has been unable to agree on a common response. In New York, the lowliest longshoreman "earns" a minimum of $16,640 a year yet can often wind up doing no work for weeks at a time, though when he does work the job is a grueling grind. At the top, 354 New York longshoremen make $40,000 to $56,000 a year. Because...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...