Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refugees-- kicked out of their adopted country-- were told by their homeland that they were not welcome. The military government of Ghana-- which had sealed its borders to prevent smuggling-- refused at first to readmit the sudden influx of its own citizens. Ghana eventually did relent, setting up "transit camps" to record the masses. But the exodus is still a painful one, as many refugees are starving, and at least one person has already died...
...bars and razor wire. Menard Correctional Center (pop. 2,600) is the principal industry of Chester, Ill. (pop. 8,000). The inmates, two of whom are scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once a day to the recreation room, they are handcuffed. Four of them are "honor residents," permitted to roam unchained in the gray hallways. One of these is John Wayne Gacy, 39, the building contractor and amateur clown convicted three years...
...down the "Japan, Inc." route probably involves more social regimentation than Americans would tolerate. But their program, however, is not new; it's the familiar "economic democracy" laundry list: a reinvigorated welfare state; national anti-plant closing legislation; public control over "sunrise" industry profits; massive government investment in mass transit in health care, and "a transformation of the nature of active popular participation in the day-to-day running of the basic institutions of the economy and the society." All of this is to be enacted at the behest of a massive popular movement...
...confirmed, Elizabeth Dole will take over a department where political astuteness, rather than transportation expertise, is the watchword. She will be responsible for portioning out billions of dollars to states and cities for highway, airport and mass-transit programs. She will have to implement many of the policies put into effect by Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry...
Just how the first $5.5 billion will be targeted has already been decided. Mass transit will get $1.1 billion, partly on the sound theory that keeping more people off roads and streets helps reduce road-repair costs. States will get $1.7 billion for major resurfacing, repair and improvement of existing interstate highways. An addition al $800 million will be used to build the last 1,575 miles of the interstate system, now scheduled for completion...