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...LYNN, Mass.-The U.S. Post Office Department could collapse in two years. Thomas P. Costin, president of the National Association of Postmasters, said Friday. The postal system of the United States is now processing as much mail as the rest of the world put together...
Tarnished Idol. The decline only confirms a malaise that frustrated consumers have already sensed as they cope with power blackouts, telephone breakdowns, transportation delays and an increasingly paralytic postal service. For years, businessmen and politicians have worshiped economic growth. Today that idol is tarnished by inflation and pollution. "We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities," John Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, said last week in Washington, "until we reach a final state of affluent misery -Croesus on a garbage heap." Slower economic growth, which is part of the Administration's recipe for battling inflation, might...
Still more important is ARVN morale. For many South Vietnamese soldiers, military duty may begin at the age of 18 and end at 40-if they survive that long. Unmarried infantrymen earn a bare dollar a day. Until recently, the military postal system was so poor that soldiers could never count on their letters and remittances reaching home. Caught in a war that promised to be endless, led by officers who often owed their jobs to bribery or political clout, yearning to return to their families and their hamlets, South Viet Nam's soldiers fought either poorly...
...Baker was appointed to the President's Commission on Postal Organization. He is currently a member of President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization...
...good times. Approximately 25,000 Arabs from the occupied territories have taken jobs in Israel, but the labor pool is still short. Prices are being kept in line only because the government refuses to sanction wage increases; one result of this is a series of labor disputes, including a postal strike which has trapped a million pieces of mail in the Jerusalem post office. About the only problem for which there appears to be no formula is how to achieve peace. Says Golda Meir: "I don't know when peace will come. But I have no doubt that it will...