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Despite workers' complaints, though, only a portion of the country's increased productivity can be chalked up to more intense toil. Much of the gain results from the scrapping of obsolete plants and the installing of improved technology. Says Stanley Mihelick, Goodyear's executive vice president for worldwide production: "The mistake that people make is that all of this productivity is because workers are sweating more. Hell, no. It comes from our $1.5 billion investment in new plant and equipment...
Evidence of this solidarity is everywhere. In a seemingly pacified valley in the shadow of a Soviet base, where the crops grow tall and farmers toil in unbombed fields, the walls of the local teahouses are plastered with guerrilla posters and photographs of mujahedin heroes. Bands of guerrillas move about openly by daylight, carrying AK-47s and RPG-7s, on their way to attack Communist positions. In almost every valley a guerrilla base camp is hidden away in some ravine...
Olebogeng, 25, is going home to Bophuthatswana, one of the tribal homelands created by South Africa in which a total of 3 million blacks have been resettled over the past 20 years. Of the 450,000 blacks who toil in South Africa's gold mines, 163,000 come from the impoverished homelands, where work is scarce and the pay pitiful. An additional 195,000 come from the neighboring countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that...
...came home from the hospital. "When I think of it now I have to laugh," his father says, "but I also have to believe in God." To free himself for football trips, Al Testaverde has given up his 17-year foreman's job to go back to the cruel toil of grading and finishing cement. "It's worth it," he says. "I want Vinny to * win the Heisman more than he wants to win it; I admit that. If he wins it today, and I drop dead tomorrow, I'm happy...
...notch comedy, tune in to Laverne and Svetlana, which depicts the hilarious mishaps of two clumsy but endearing roommates who toil endlessly in a chemical weapons factory. A classic episode has Laverne turn Svetlana in to the KGB for questioning when she begins to suspect her of sabotage. The program ends with the two reunited, raising clenched fists and singing patriotic songs...