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...which studies pollution in New York harbor. C.U.N.Y. now trains teachers' aides and paraprofessional nurses. It retrains retired cops and firemen to fill critical shortages in nursing, teaches city planning to neighborhood leaders and runs eleven centers for teaching thousands of jobless adults such skills as how to repair air conditioners and mold plastics...
...through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year, one Manhattan insurance broker says: "No one ever loses an old suit in a fire...
Hussein apparently intends to try to repair his torn kingdom, a courageous but possibly foolhardy decision. Last week he appointed a new government, half civilian, half military, with former Chief of the Royal Court Ahmed Toukan as Premier. But the King is left with few foreign friends, surrounded by implacable foes and plagued by a shortage of funds. A majority of the people in his kingdom are potential antagonists, and a sizable portion of his country is in Israeli hands. During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case...
...orbit of Soviet influence. Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed...
...this may impress Westerners-until they happen to get sick in Russia. By U.S. standards, many Soviet hospitals are as crowded and shabby as the New York City subway. The typical building is a grim fortress with old equipment in poor repair. The food is plentiful but dull; instead of tissues and toilet paper, the patient makes do with yesterday's Pravda. The institutions are well described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his novel, The Cancer Ward. To some patients, though, such hospitals look like paradise. Among them are alcoholics, a major Soviet problem, who can wind up in "corrective...