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Another and in some ways more urgent problem is what the new migrations are doing to the big industrial cities, especially those of the Northeastern quadrant. They are hemorrhaging. Economist Thomas Muller of the Urban Institute in Washington lists nine "municipal danger signals." Among them: substantial long-term outmigration, loss of private employment, high debt service, high unemployment, high tax burden, increasing proportion of low-income population. The cities displaying those danger signals are Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Others that are better off but still in trouble are Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh...
...understatement. The football-field ceremony ended more than 90 years of mostly benevolent foreign rule by, in turn, Germany, Britain and Australia. Except for a few years during World War II, when Japanese troops overran much of the island, Australia had governed Papua-the island's southeastern quadrant-since 1906, and adjoining northeastern New Guinea since World War I under League of Nations and U.N. mandates. Prodded initially by the U.N. and by its own dislike of the colonial image, the Whitlam government fairly rushed the reluctant colony into self-rule (in 1973) and now full independence...
Today approximately one-third of Bade County's 1.4 million people are Cubans. They live in widely scattered neighborhoods, including some of the city's finest, but they are centered in Miami's southwest quadrant in a section known as Little Havana or La Saguesera (a Spanish-English corruption of "southwest"). Throughout the county, the Cubans own some 8,000 businesses, including banks and construction firms, newspapers and shoe factories. Five Bade County banks have Cuban presidents. Nearly one-quarter of the county's Cuban families make more than $15,000 annually, and 40% earn more...
...mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock-strewn ridges just north of the crater Tycho, in the moon's southwestern quadrant...
...Montagnard mercenaries, led by a U.S. Special Forces sergeant, "zapped" a North Vietnamese platoon in the mountain massif to the rear of the Air Cav's An Khe headquarters. In a tin box on one of the Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before it could be mounted...