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More than $10 billion worth of projects has been approved since 1967. Yet, with an annual per capita income of only $185, Indonesia's 140 million people rank among the world's poorest. Roughly 6 million people are unemployed. The influx of foreign funds was led by an oil boom that has made Indonesia, with a daily output of 1.7 million bbl., Asia's only main exporter of crude. Corruption and haphazard government policies, however, have slowed further oil exploration to a crawl, and Indonesia may lose its exporting position within a decade...
...potent new rival. In a surprise move, Sweden's two automakers-Volvo and Saab-Scania-announced their decision to unite in a new company, to be called Volvo-Saab-Scania. By any measure, the triple-hyphenated outfit will be a giant: with sales of $5.8 billion, it will rank as Europe's fourth largest automaker (after Daimler-Benz, Renault and Volkswagen), turn out a line of vehicles ranging from compacts to huge Scania rigs, and employ nearly 104,000 workers...
...list of violations, betrayals and criminal acts is long, and we can only cite a few instances here. Surely Kissinger's actions as regards American intervention in the Viet Nam War must rank among his worst crimes. While he inherited rather than initiated American involvement, he continued to prosecute it for five long and bloody years; while Kissinger talked of peace, the war was widened to Cambodia and Laos. The heaviest and most destructive bombing of the war occurred while Kissinger talked peace. Some of the largest and most destructive land operations involving the heaviest casualties to civilians occurred after...
Last week over 900 demonstrators began officially serving sentences for convictions that are automatically appealed to another court in New Hampshire. The courts refuse to release those remaining in jail unless they put up bail. Thomson has asked "corporations, labor unions and rank-and-file citizens" across the country to contribute money to defray the cost of the occupiers' incarceration. "Our battle of today can become theirs of tomorrow," Thomson said Friday, advising other states contemplating construction of nuclear plants or already employing them that they too might be "invaded...
...merits as a method of determining rank. The strong and the influential usually came out on top. The role of strength is obvious; the role of influence somewhat more subtle. If you had influence you could count on support from friends when the inevitable argument started over who lifted their elbow off the table first...