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Aside from the fact that it was the place where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton filmed Graham Greene's novel, The Comedians, Dahomey's chief claim to notoriety is its penchant for coups d'état. Since 1963, the tiny West African state (pop. 2,500,000 in an area of 44,290 sq. mi.) has experienced four coups, all bloodless. Last week Dahomey suffered its fifth coup in six years, but this time the takeover was not bloodless. When President Emile Zinsou, 51, an able, French-trained medical doctor, arrived at his seaside palace...
...efforts to condition its huge populace to the possibility of war comes from two U.S. citizens who were seized by Chinese fishing junks last February while yachting between Hong Kong and Macao. Released last week, they told of seeing widespread roadblocks and military activity whenever they were shifted from place to place. From his shuttered room in a rural commune, Simeon Baldwin, Hong Kong-based manager of an aircraft-parts firm, said that he could hear the local army units at bayonet practice. "There is constant talk of defense and you see preparations for war everywhere. My interpreters really believed...
...place is a disaster area," says University of Montana Botanist Clarence C. Gordon, who was called in with other scientists by the National Air Pollution Control Administration to study the problem. The scientists found that sulphur dioxide in the fumes kills the tips of some trees and causes others to lose their needles or grow buds in unsightly clusters...
...timed to take advantage of favorable prices. Government regulatory agencies might abolish minimum rates for freight shipments and other transportation, and permit competition to take over again. Oil-import quotas, which cost gasoline consumers at least $4 billion a year, could be revised or scrapped. Fair-trade laws, which place floors under the prices of some goods, might also be repealed. These are the sort of moves that economists as far apart as Walter Heller and Milton Friedman agree should be made...
...abolish most other types of aid to the poor and substitute the income guarantee. It would provide direct cash grants that poverty-level families could spend any way they pleased. He argues that most current programs to help the poor either wind up aiding the better-off instead or place humiliating restrictions on what the poor can do with the money they...