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...often enough. When it does, tenants usually consider the morass of paper work and legal fees likely to result from bringing suit and glumly drop the whole thing. But this executive and his employer had each been contributing just over $1 per week to a group legal insurance plan, underwritten by Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. and sponsored by the Oregon State Bar Association. The tenant simply consulted one of the plan's attorneys, who wrote a letter to the landlady. "Before we knew it, a check showed up in the mail," says the executive. "If I didn't have...
...financial cost of that involvement is underwritten almost entirely by the Soviet Union (see box). And not just young men apply for African duty. Says Vilma Espin, 46, head of the Federation of Cuban Women and wife of Fidel's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro: "At the height of the war in Angola, we had thousands of letters from women of all ages, including ones in their 70s, asking to go as cooks. One of the most important changes in Cuba since the revolution is that women who were afraid to go out of their houses 20 years...
...border into northern California, where Humboldt County police claim that pot cultivation jumped this year by 500%. In small towns like Garberville, marijuana has assumed an influential role in local business. Says Ted Kogon, owner of the Evergreen Natural Foods and Access Store: "Every shop along Main Street is underwritten with dope money." Hyperbole perhaps, but many local citizens are convinced that the weed has boosted prosperity. "If it's ever legalized, it will be a great industry for this county," asserts Rick Nelson, managing editor of the regional daily Times-Standard...
...fall half a century earlier. The tapes of that church concert, along with a few Liszt pieces recorded under studio conditions, have been released as a Nyiregyházi Plays Liszt (IPA/Desmar) record. Critics exclaimed over the strange, powerful playing. In two further sets of taping sessions, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, Nyiregyházi played Liszt and other romantics; record release is now being negotiated. Meanwhile, NBC will be featuring Nyiregyházi on its June 3 Weekend show. He emerges as an inspired throwback to a more heroic past. Says Nyiregyházi: "Pianists today are so lacking...
...Lebanon took an unanticipated chunk from the organization treasury-according to one reliable estimate about $100 million. Although most of the P.L.O.'s guns and ammunition were underwritten by other countries, notably Libya, the organization has had to care for 4,000 disabled fighters as well as dependents of the dead. Widows continue to receive $75 a month, parents $25, brothers or sisters $10 and children $5 each. Since the war, the P.L.O. has founded Samed (Arabic for steadfast), a kind of poor man's conglomerate of 24 factories and workshops in Lebanon that provide jobs...