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...After collecting their food stamps at the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, some of the unemployed stop at nearby vacant lots-to pick wild mustard greens. A laid-off Chrysler senior engineer, James Howard, 44, has become a Mr. Fixit, going round his neighborhood in Detroit to repair furnaces, rehabilitate appliances and install storm windows that he builds. Norman Sanders, 55, an unemployed electrician from Somerville, N.J., found a solution: "My two married sons and I set up a commune. We share taxes, food bills and household expenses. We all get along real good...
...amortization payments on $90 million in outstanding loans. To add to Chisso's troubles, another of its plants was partially destroyed by an explosion in 1973. Company officials last year quietly asked the Japanese government's development bank for a low-interest $13 million loan to repair the factory. But when news of the request became known in January, there was a public outcry...
...order of business, a task which would only be more difficult in the wake of a civilian slaughter. Continuing the aid will guarantee a bloody, protracted struggle for the city, Congress should refuse the aid and begin to work with the Khmer Rouge to reassert Cambodian self-determination and repair the damage of half a decade...
...most workers, however, the main safety net is Government unemployment insurance, and there is a growing feeling that it contains holes that are sorely in need of repair. State insurance funds in New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island have already toppled into temporary bankruptcy and been forced to borrow a total of $299 million from the U.S. Treasury to keep going. The Labor Department reckons that as many as 30 other states may have to follow suit within the next two years. To keep their systems solvent, some states are now raising the tax on employers. That will...
...Thatcher's offer to Heath of a shadow cabinet post was taken as further evidence of her willingness to mute party conflicts. Calling at his Wilton Street house-still under repair after a pre-Christmas I.R.A. bomb blast-she renewed her invitation to have him join her as shadow Foreign Secretary. As she knew in advance that he would, he declined, stating a preference for a less conspicuous backbench perch-perhaps in the hope that if things go badly for Mrs. Thatcher he will be recalled to party leadership...