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...public schools, which are $23 million in debt, predicted that voter rejection of emergency taxes would mean that the schools could not operate for more than two weeks next September. Dallas voters had not turned down a municipal-bond issue in 25 years, but after Proposition 13, they rejected six out of 17 such issues on the local ballot. Many of the "no" votes were cast in black and Mexican-American neighborhoods, which helped defeat such "elitist" proposals as a $45 million arts facility, a $14 million pedestrian walkway, and $6.8 million for convention-center improvements...
...Cornelius ("Connie") Mulder, 53, a smooth-talking Transvaal politician who succeeded Botha. Mulder has vowed to make Soweto "the most beautiful city in Africa" by planning two new shopping centers and hotel complexes, theaters, drive-in movies, a tennis club and stadium and at least 8,000 new six-room houses with electricity. The housing is a better offer than Sowetans have experienced up to now, but there are catches: under terms of the 99-year leases, a father could not hand down a house through his family. Also, the government retains ownership of the land, and thus still...
...have made the perilous journey out of their Communist homelands there are few safe havens. Harbor police in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysian ports sometimes sharply discourage boatloads of hungry and thirsty Vietnamese, who then set sail again to virtually certain death at sea. Last week the arrest of six Thai policemen pointed to the widespread mistreatment of the 2,000 boat people who have taken refuge in Thailand. The policemen were charged with looting and gang-raping about 30 Vietnamese in a fishing boat outside the coastal town of Nakhon Si Thammarat last month...
Many of the Vietnamese refugees have been subjected to extortion several times. First, illegal ship brokers in Viet Nam demand 20 to 35 taels of gold ($6,000 to $10,500 on the Saigon market) to put a family of six on a fishing junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees...
...mile marathon distance. (In all, some 200 women completed the course.) The loneliness?and the hardship?of the long-distance runner leave her unfazed: "I have more self-confidence, more energy than I had before. And when I run in the rain, I feel about six years...