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More headlines, more gaps and contradictions, more embarrassing revelations day by day. As he fought to retain his hold on the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Jimmy Carter last week continued to bear the burden of Billy-and it was getting heavier all the time...
...economic ideal is a combination of socialism and free enterprise. The Sandinistas have nationalized banks, insurance companies and the fishing industry, and taken over some 2.5 million acres of the country's arable farm land from Somoza and his cronies, yet they have allowed the private sector to retain control of about 60% of the gross national product. Despite their uncertainty over the Sandinistas' aims, many businessmen express cautious optimism about the future. Says Jorge Salazar, president of the Agricultural Producers' Union: "The private sector that is not investing in Nicaragua left with Somoza...
...foothills of the Himalaya-to say nothing of such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees are slashed away, the ground loses its ability to retain water, the land becomes increasingly arid and precious topsoil is lost. Shortages of drinking water will become chronic in many parts of the world...
Much of the new construction is also centered in downtown areas that only a few years ago were being written off as decaying disaster zones. Now the ever-threatening gas shortages, combined with the high cost of commuting by auto, have caused many companies to retain and even expand their offices in city centers. The long overdue establishment of efficient mass transit systems in many cities is also helping to renew urban areas. For example, by 1985 an executive in Atlanta will be able to step from the planned Georgia-Pacific Center on Peachtree Street and arrive 15 min. later...
...owners of Harper's plan to retain Editor Lewis Lapham, 45, and hope to return the magazine to solvency by converting it to a nonprofit organization, which will bring tax breaks and reduced postal rates. MacArthur family members note that John D. saved a money loser called Theater Arts magazine in 1950. Its editor was his older brother, Newsman-Playwright Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page...