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...typical first day in America for the dispossessed Indochinese, who are now flowing into the country at the rate of 12,000 a month. So far, the U.S. has taken in some 50,000 boat people and other refugees from the current upheaval, the highest total by far of any Western host country. New arrivals, who tend to cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with...
...report was chilling. It said that more than 55 million children under 15 are currently being exploited as workers, in violation of the minimum age of 15 set by a 1973 I.L.O. convention that has been ratified by 15 countries. Since most of the children are working illegally, the total number is believed to be "infinitely larger" than the statistics indicate. "In the vast majority of cases," says the report, "working children are either unpaid or receive negligible wages...
...representational" entertainment, depending on their individual ranks, in addition to their salaries of $122,000 to $145,000, they exceeded their allowances by 24%, according to the audit. Stung by the charge, Jenkins issued a denial, arguing that the auditors were wrong in calling the 24% an "overrun." The total amount spent, $376,000, he said, was still less than the $381,300 he claimed the European Parliament had allocated for entertainment by the commissioners. But Jenkins promised to publish quickly the commission's response to the audit as well as "a review of all existing practices and procedures...
...they had been in the same month last year, though much of that increase simply reflected higher prices. Moreover, Americans are still piling on installment debt at the brisk rate of $5 billion a month. Indeed, by the end of June they were in the hole for a record total of $292.5 billion, which is hardly a sign of consumer panic...
Government research grants now total $4.5 billion a year, in the case of some universities, up to 40% of the total operating budget. The audit crackdown is likely to put a serious crimp in the already strained relationship between academia and the federal bureaucracy...