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...authorization. "It is madness to so jeopardize our own security and the orderly progression of the world." But House members had al ready unsheathed their sharpest knives and, in a callously contrived show of economy, hacked the aid authorization to bare bones. The modest $2.9 billion Administration request, smallest in the aid program's 21-year history, was cut by nearly $ 1 billion before being passed by a 228-to-184 vote...
After more than half a century of prosperity and welfare-statism, South America's smallest republic had grown increasingly noncompetitive in world markets with its two main exports: beef and wool. State-owned enterprises, which employ a quarter of the labor force, had grown to what Pacheco calls a "three-bodies-for-every-job bureaucracy." Pensions, which working mothers, for example, can start collecting after ten years on the job, had become a way of life. Huge, Communist-backed unions were constantly on strike...
...cope with all this, Los Angeles has the smallest force in the country, relative to population (an estimated 2,840,632) and area (463.6 sq. mi.). The city employs only 1.9 cops per 1,000 residents v. 2.8 in Chicago, 3.2 in New York. Yet man for man, in part because the force is so highly motorized, it is probably one of the most efficient. The L.A.P.D. has a higher percentage of civilians than any other big-city force (three civilians for every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn...
...though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman "a little disappointed...
Despite their ceremonial return to Malta, the knights intend to keep their headquarters in Rome, where they enjoy the distinction of being the world's smallest sovereign state, with diplomatic relations with 37 countries. The total territory of the order, whose full title is the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, consists of two small Roman palaces, where the knights mint their own coins and raise funds for their good works by printing stamps...