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...hottest issues in the state, arousing the strong opposition of religious leaders and law-enforcement officials who warned that turning the beach-resort city into a Las Vegas East would attract not only tourists but also organized crime, prostitution and loan sharks. The Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City spent $1 million arguing that casino gambling would resuscitate the dowdy, declining resort and bring much-needed revenue into the city and the state. Two years ago, voters turned down a proposal that would have allowed casinos to be established anywhere in New Jersey. This time the reverse vote may have been...
Mere Rhetoric. Still, the malaise that grips the decaying motor capital is unlikely to yield to short-term measures like a curfew-and even less to mere rhetoric and good intentions. As John Cardinal Dearden, the Archbishop of Detroit, put it last week, "We are called upon to rebuild the structure...
Forced Layoffs. The drought, which afflicts much of Europe, also threatens to undermine the government's year-old program to rebuild Britain's battered economy. Summer grain and food crops are suffering, and food prices are certain to rise. Worse, the drought could force large segments of British industry into layoffs or shortened work weeks. British Leyland, for instance, fears the loss of as many as 1,000 jobs at a parts plant outside the Welsh capital of Cardiff. With unemployment at a postwar record of 1.5 million (6.4%), any further increase could jeopardize the government...
During the early 1970s, executives of Rohr, primarily an aerospace subcontractor, boasted that they would help rebuild the nation's surface transportation system. They planned futuristic trains, air cushions and people-movers (transmission belts carrying people rather than baggage). With equal enthusiasm, they spoke of new vistas in space communications and automated mail systems. It added up to a grand adventure into uncharted terrain-a bit too grand...
Cubans are also training a civilian militia, teaching in schools and serving as agricultural advisers to farming cooperatives formed from nationalized estates, manning many of Angola's hospitals, and helping to rebuild the country's shattered road systems. These civilian advisers seem to be well liked. Posters salute them as OUR BLOOD BROTHERS, and a reciprocal sign in a Cuban billet proclaims: WE ARE LATIN AFRICANS. Generally, the visitors keep a low profile in Luanda; they are seldom seen in great numbers except on weekends, when they congregate on a beach reserved for them to play their guitars...