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...mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of laid-off migrant workers --mainly Egyptians, Palestinians and Pakistanis--from the Persian Gulf could overtax their native lands and stir political unrest. While singling out no particular country, Secretary of State Shultz cautioned last week, "History teaches that nations in deep economic distress are more vulnerable to political instability, to the simplistic appeals of demagogues who preach siren songs of war and confrontation as a diversion from home...
...historic milestone," Samuel Ehrenhalt, New York commissioner for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, proclaimed last week. He was referring to new figures from the bureau that show that women hold more than 50% of the professional jobs in the U.S. Ehrenhalt's remarks immediately created a stir in major newspapers, which trumpeted the arrival of the "New Majority...
Even though other Latin American nations are in somewhat better shape than Mexico, they contend that over the long haul the debt burden could cripple their economies, stir social unrest and conceivably bring down their shaky governments as well. Declared Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo last week: "This debt is the epicenter in the fragility of our democratic systems...
Flanders also takes issue with the dining halls' rendition of stir-fry chicken. "The vegetables, especially the snow pea pods, tend to be overdone," she says. "Also, they add celery, which is not what you would call an authentic stir-fry food...
Grenada was meant to be one of the beneficiaries of Reagan's 1983 Caribbean Basin Initiative, a plan to stir economic growth in the region by granting twelve years of duty-free entry into the U.S. for products from 21 Caribbean and Central American nations. But the free-trade clauses were $ stripped away as the bill made its way through a Congress more intent on protecting special interests in the U.S. than on helping the Caribbean. Last year, Caribbean exports to the U.S. dropped by 23%, a decline due in large part to a poor market in sugar, bauxite...