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...that the number may top 1 million by 1995. Israel, which had a population of 4.5 million before the influx began, lacks the resources to absorb so many. Health care, schools and infrastructural needs are all suffering; early this year unemployment hit a record high of 10.8%. Moreover, the tide of immigrants improves the demographic position for Israel's Jews, many of whom feared until recently that they would be outnumbered within the next 25 years by Arabs living in Israel and the occupied territories...
...outside world, the tide was beginning to turn. By Tuesday morning the Western powers had got their act together and unanimously, though separately, proclaimed a clear line: no normal relations with the Soviet Union until legitimate authority was restored, and a quick and indefinite cutoff of most of the economic aid that the U.S.S.R. desperately needs...
...many American cities, young black men are a group in critical condition, growing up into lives of poverty, crime and early death. In an attempt to stem that tide, the board of education in Detroit -- where black males have a 54% dropout rate -- decided to establish three all-male public schools. Open to all races but focused chiefly on black students, they were to feature high academic standards, strict discipline and a stress on African-American history...
...hope is growing that there will soon be none. Years have passed since innocent air travelers were massacred in a departure lounge or held at gunpoint for days on a baking tarmac. No truck bombs have created havoc for many months. Is it safe to conclude that the tide has turned, that terrorism is going out of style...
That happened in 1987, and the tide of petty American litigiousness has kept on rising to new, absurd heights. This is the age of the self-tort crybaby, to whom some disappointment -- a slur, the loss of a job, an errant spouse, a foul-tasting can of beer, a slip on the supermarket floor, an unbecoming face- lift -- is sufficient occasion to claim huge monetary awards...