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...three years since the great stock market crash of 1929, national income had plunged by more than half, from $87.4 billion to $41.7 billion. Unemployment had soared to 4 million in 1930, 8 million in 1931, 12 million in 1932-one-quarter of the entire work force-and in stricken cities like Chicago the figure went as high as one-half. FORTUNE magazine estimated that 27.5 million Americans had no regular income at all. More than a million of the jobless roamed the country as hobos. Ugly clusters of tin-can shanties known as "Hoovervilles" sprouted in the midst...
Guatemala's increasing unemployment has benefited the guerrillas, who are trying to win the cooperation, if not the allegiance of the traditionally passive native Indians, descendants of the Mayan Empire, who make up some 40% of the population. The guerrillas reportedly are hiring some of the poverty-stricken Indians as fighters for $100 a month, plus food. The army, in turn, has offered the Indians protection from the combat in camps located in fire-free zones...
...Springfield silversmith, lapidary and jade carver, Morss said she wants to give an opportunity to the many poverty-stricken people "for whom the door never opens...
...that Gaddafi has not tried. "Show me one country which is stricken by the terror disease, and I will show you the Libyan connection," says Yehudit Ronen, a scholar of Libyan affairs from the Tel Aviv-based Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. "Gaddafi has his arm everywhere." Revolutionary movements backed by Gaddafi have ranged from the Palestine Liberation 0rganization to the Irish Republican Army, from Basque and Corsican separatists to the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines. He runs a dozen or more training camps for guerrilla warfare, with advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba...
...mainly children in equatorial Africa and elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean extraction. But now the disease is taking an alarming toll on another distinct group, American homosexual males. In the past six months, the disease that usually afflicts fewer than two people out of 3 million Americans has stricken 95 individuals, more than 90% of them homosexual men, most of whom are in their 30s. The death rate so far exceeds...