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...state economies are so robust, of course. Unemployment in West Virginia stands at 9.7%, largely because of a loss of jobs in the coal industry and manufacturing. In Kentucky the rate is 8.6%. Yet almost everywhere, summer travel has brought a labor crunch in the resort and recreation industries. Dishwashers, floor sweepers and busboys have become as rare as teenagers in summer school. Says Cheryl Winters, manager of the Gwinnett County office of the Georgia department of labor: "There are essentially no domestic workers. They have gone with the wind." The situation . is not expected to improve over last year...
...spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style...
Like most places that provide assistance for the poor, the Legal Aid Society's Park Place office in Manhattan is overwhelmed. Flooded with requests for help, the 26 lawyers who work there resort to a kind of triage system, sometimes choosing to block an eviction before untangling a Social Security foul-up, or rushing to counter an immigration problem while other clients wait for assistance in getting welfare benefits. "We just don't have the money or the staffing to do it all," says Attorney Morton Dicker...
Federal regulators said last week that liquidations will remain a last resort in resolving the industry's widespread insolvencies. Of 3,100 federally insured thrifts, some 200 are considered hopelessly insolvent. The FSLIC's liability for these S and Ls now significantly exceeds its assets on hand, so that the fund posted a deficit of $13.7 billion at the end of 1987, contrasted with $6.3 billion the previous year. But the FSLIC aims to narrow that gap over the next few years, relying on income from premiums and other sources. The FSLIC estimates that it will have $20 billion available...
Farther north, in Durban, a leading coastal resort, Mayor Henry Klotz was pondering his status as an outcast from President P.W. Botha's National Party. Last month Klotz balked when party colleagues on the city council reserved two of Durban's best beaches for whites only. The beaches were the scene of confrontations between blacks and whites last summer. After his refusal to endorse the segregation plan, Klotz was suspended for "acting disloyally and contrary to the interests" of the party. Declaring that he was "duty bound to act in the interests of all the citizens," the mayor resigned...