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SINCE THE DAY he was first elected Mayor of New York in 1977, Ed Koch has tried to do to his city what Ronald Reagan is now doing to the country. Even while economists were attacking the newly elected president last year for using America as a guinea pig in his supply-side experiment. The Wall Street Journal quietly pointed out in editorials that Reaganomics has already been applied in New York by Koch. Last week, the mayor was defeated in an expensive state-wide gubernatorial primary that few expected him to lose, which suggests that after five years...
Exxon's cash squeeze has been intensified by management miscalculations in a series of unsuccessful attempts to diversify. Examples: Exxon spent $857 million during the past five years to develop uranium, copper, lead, zinc and molybdenum mines from Nevada to Papua New Guinea. But the company has lost $383 million on these operations because of the slowdown in nuclear reactor construction and a fall in metal prices. After investing nearly $1 billion in a project in Colorado to develop synthetic fuel from shale, Exxon abruptly suspended the program last spring. Exxon Senior Vice President Jack Bennett says the company...
...both complex societies where citizens are subject to all sorts of variables, including stress, that could contribute to hypertension. More convincing evidence against sodium conies from simpler cultures, where it is still possible to find people living relatively simple lives on low-salt diets. The tribesmen in New Guinea, the Amazon Basin, the highlands of Malaysia and rural Uganda all eat very little salt. Hypertension is virtually unheard of in those regions, and the blood pressure of individuals does not rise steadily with age, as it does in the U.S. and other salt-loving nations. But when salt is introduced...
...response, Africans turned out by the tens, and hundreds of thousands. Normal activity in Nigeria's capital of Lagos all but stopped, as streets filled with crowds of well-wishers bearing pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next to Communist slogans...
There are other problems, and they are evident in the four nations chosen for the Pope's second trip. Two, N geria and Gabon, suffer from the rapid urbanization and social disruption that have followed oil-fueled economic booms. In Benin and Equatorial Guinea, Catholic churches are trying to gain back ground lost during years of dictatorial rule...