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...state of emergency. Should the fundamentalists achieve a two-thirds majority, they will have enough votes to force constitutional changes and override presidential vetoes. Jean Leca, a leading French expert on Algeria, warns that in such an event, strict social control and dictatorship are likely to follow. Other analysts predict that the military, which is committed to a modernizing, secular state, will thwart such ambitions...
...approaching. Many American companies have decided they can wait no longer to slash labor costs. In quick succession last week, three major U.S. firms announced layoffs. GM said it will significantly restructure its operations but won't disclose the actual number of job cuts until this week. Industry experts predict as many as 35,000 employees, or about 9% of GM's work force, may be gone by 1993. TRW, the defense and credit- reporting firm, plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or 14% of its payroll, during the next 18 months. And Xerox will lay off 2,500 workers...
...three children instead of the six her mother may have borne will have 27 great-grandchildren instead of 216." If enough women follow that example -- which means, above all, practicing contraception -- the world's population may eventually stabilize at around 10 billion, rather than the 15 billion some demographers predict. A human race twice as numerous as it is now might be able to feed itself and avoid disastrous social, political and environmental consequences. However, at three times today's level, there would be far greater risk of a Malthusian cataclysm...
Officials predict that the demise of this global ring will reverberate through the drug trade for years to come. The Saccoccias, who are rumored to be returning voluntarily to the U.S. from Switzerland this week to face charges, allegedly commanded as much as 10% of the U.S. drug-money laundering market. "Money is the fuel that feeds the drug lords," says Commissioner of Customs Carol Hallett. "And we just cut off one very big pipeline...
However, a number of scholars and government officials found serious problems with the study's methodology. Basing their findings on an unusually small population sample, the researchers employed a "parametric" model that had never before been used to predict behavior. In fact, the study's authors did not include the marriage figures in their final paper...