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...October. They may or may not further the cause of world peace in a forum that has failed to live up to its impossibly dreamy promise as arbiter of global disputes. But the assembled dignitaries will surely provide a rich spectacle of diplomatic pomp and a torrent of high- minded rhetoric, not to mention traffic jams that are likely to be, even by midtown Manhattan standards, of epic proportions. Worries New York City Assistant Police Chief Gerard Kerins: "We could have days with 100 demonstrations going on at one time and 30 motorcades converging on one spot...
...unprecedented rate since the reform of immigration laws in 1965. Last year alone, more Asian immigrants came to the U.S. -- 282,000 -- than in the three decades from 1931 to 1960. More than half settled in California, which has the nation's largest Asian population (64%). The torrent of new arrivals is not likely to diminish in the foreseeable future: about 1 million other Asians have already applied and received preliminary clearance to come to America. By the year 2010, the Asian population in the U.S. is expected to more than double...
Economic growth would have been much stronger in the first quarter were it not for a torrent of imports, which added to an international trade deficit that hit a record $123 billion in 1984. Though Americans spent freely early in the year, they were favoring many foreign goods over domestic products. As a result, production in U.S. factories stagnated. The main reason for the import binge was the strength of the dollar, which until the last few months seemed to be rising inexorably. Between 1980 and last February, the value of the dollar climbed by more than 60% against...
When the war stopped, so did this vast torrent of images to the West. Both sides seemed complicit in the blackout: the Vietnamese victors were not especially eager for skeptical foreigners to photograph their land, and the foreigners were not all that interested anyway--since when has peace been newsworthy? Out of sight was not quite out of mind, but close. Now, however, thanks to an anniversary marking the end of a wrenching war, the pictures have begun to flow again, giving Americans another look at a country they knew so well--and knew hardly...
...Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gifts for fresh and arresting description. Fenton calls the black- naped oriole "the flaming youth of the forest, the jeunesse d'or, the jungle glitterati." And O'Hanlon is chillingly adept at describing the river torrent that nearly killed his friend, and at expressing some thoughts about the omnipresence of early death by misadventure: "No wonder the population was so perpetually young, so beautiful." Into the Heart of Borneo makes the island more surreal than enticing; nevertheless, O'Hanlon has announced plans for a similar three-month...