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...Americans to recycle 50% of their trash, as Japanese do. Cultural change is notoriously slow, but it might be speeded up in this instance by the lash of crisis. Americans have always treated garbage as something to be forgotten about the moment it is picked up from the curb. But the day may soon be coming when it will no longer be picked up because there will be no place to take...
...Defense moved to reduce the high visibility -- and vulnerability -- of British troops on the Continent. The 95,000 British soldiers in West Germany were ordered to exchange special black-and-white military license plates for ordinary British tags. This fall Thatcher plans to push legislation in Parliament that would curb Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., by requiring candidates for local council chambers in Northern Ireland to declare that they will not support any illegal organization...
...outbursts are fueled by economic woes and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev' s promise of a reformed model of Communism. -- Rumania marches backward toward poverty and ever greater tyranny. -- Horror comes to the green hills of Burundi. -- What should Britain do to curb the I. R. A.? -- South Africa cracks down on draft resisters...
...upswing: in December the country resumed paying all its interest -- more than ten months after it stunned the financial community by stopping payments on its loans from private banks. But in Argentina, which is some $55 billion in debt, President Raul Alfonsin has imposed a wage-price freeze to curb inflation, which was running at an annual rate of more than 300% in July. Earlier this month, the U.S. announced that it would give Argentina an emergency $500 million loan to help it meet interest payments that have come...
Critics of Pentagon waste hail the department's new rules for having helped curb the sort of skulduggery that used to allow contractors to sell the Government $7,000 coffeemakers and $600 toilet seats. They maintain that defense companies, far from destitute, are simply earning less than the bloated profits they once viewed as their birthright. Says Dina Rasor, director of the private Project on Military Procurement: "It's like taking a fifth hot-fudge sundae from a fat man, and he complains that you're starving...