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Angry Turks. In 1966 the government offered to help residents of Lice relocate their homes on safer, flatter terrain below the existing village. Only 150 families were willing to make the move. Their reinforced concrete homes-unlike the older stone and mortar houses on the hillside-survived the recent earthquake with only slight damage. After a special five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks...
...tyrannies that were possible in office, factory or domestic household, where one could lose his job at an employer's whim and could count on few if any benefits if given the sack. But those who in their own lives have since gained by shorter hours, better quarters, safer conditions and coffee breaks have also lost something when they in turn become customers and consumers: a decline in store manners and helpfulness, clothes and articles more carelessly made, service and workmanship less dependable. One man's easier life is bought with another's frustrations...
...Ford talked with a level candor on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. A strong advocate of equal rights for women, she repeated her beliefs about abortion-the Supreme Court's decision legalizing it, she said, was "a great, great decision." When Correspondent Morley Safer asked her about marijuana, Mrs. Ford said that she assumed her four children had sampled it and that she probably would have tried it herself when she was young: "It's the type of thing that the young people have to experience, like your first beer or your first cigarette...
...only when Safer led her into a discussion of premarital sex that some viewers' moral blood pressure really rose. Asked what her attitude would be if her 18-year-old daughter Susan confided that she was having an affair, Betty Ford replied: "Well, I wouldn't be surprised. I think she's a perfectly normal human being like all young girls. If she wanted to continue, I would certainly counsel and advise her on the subject. And I'd want to know pretty much about the young man ... whether it was a worthwhile encounter...
...effect already been committed to highways. The Department of Transportation's budget projections through 1981 call for federal spending of about $2.2 billion a year-roughly the same amount provided by the trust fund today -to maintain rural, suburban and urban roads and make them safer. Moreover, under Ford's plan, mass-transit funds that used to come from the highway trust would now come out of general revenues, where they would be at a competitive disadvantage with roads. "Sure, we need more mass transit," sums up a transportation expert in Washington. "But we also need the highways...