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...questionnaire, using the provided postage-paid envelope, on April 1, which has been designated Census Day. Households failing to comply within several weeks will receive visits from the enumerators. They will also call on the 10% of the households that are not required to mail back the forms. This group is located mainly in sparsely populated areas. (Past censuses have shown that mail often goes astray in these regions...
...version, which asks seven personal questions, such as each resident's name, sex, age, marital status, race (15 categories, including white, black, American Indian, Filipino, Eskimo and Guamanian) and whether the respondent is of Spanish/Hispanic origin. Specific queries about race and national descent have been sought by minority group leaders who have argued that many of their members have been overlooked in past counts. Said Juanita Steadham, a prominent Creek Indian activist: "Before, the form said 'black and others.' Indians would not mark 'others...
...group is almost certain to answer questions about their incomes less than candidly: those citizens who do not report their full earnings to the tax collector. The blossoming of America's underground economy means that a lot of income is not going to be accounted for. Admits Levine: "All this does affect the quality of the census. There's no doubt about it." Those who lie or refuse to complete the form could be fined...
Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
Levinger was the founder of Qiryat Arba. Shortly after the 1967 war, he led a group of his followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...