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...prospect of declining prosperity. Says Abram Bergson, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "Over the coming decade, the Soviets will be lucky if the increase in consumer goods is half what it has been lately." The central planning that helped achieve rapid industrialization has become the roadblock to further economic development...
...their cars. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them out of the way. I heard gunfire. I saw a police officer...
...police from both Miami and Dade County, which surrounds the city, moved into the riot areas in force, the killing pattern changed. Nine blacks were either shot by the officers or struck by gunfire from unidentified sources. Allen Mills, 33, was shot five times by police at a roadblock in the riot zone. The officers claimed Mills had threatened them with a knife. Blacks at the scene contended that Mills was unarmed and had been shot repeatedly in the back. Police claimed that Elijah Aaron had first shot at them, then was killed in the return fire by the officers...
...University has trouble boosting the number of tenured women and minorities for a number of institutional reasons, Rosovsky said. One roadblock is what he calls a "stock and flow problem: the University has a stock of about 450 tenured members, but makes 12 to 15 tenured appointments annually...
...Department of the Interior, which wants to lease drilling rights to private oil companies, and an alliance of fishermen, environmentalists, and the Attorney General of Massachusetts, who fear an oil spill that could devastate the area. Now the pro-oil forces have swept away a major legal roadblock. Barring a successful new attack by the fishing group, the leases will be auctioned off Dec. 18 at a hotel in Providence...