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Other nations, by contrast, actually encourage emigration. Mexico's population is growing so fast that the country would have to create at least 750,000 jobs a year just to keep its unemployment rate from mounting further. Small wonder, then, that Mexico makes scant effort to assist the U.S. in reversing the tide. President Ferdinand Marcos has cited the annual exodus of 35,000 Filipinos to the U.S. as a help in offsetting two of his country's most obstinate problems: unemployment (now running at 45%) and a lopsided balance of payments. In South Korea, the departure of workers...
...anthropologist at the University of Hamburg. Mengele's 1938 dental records (a written description of the teeth, not including X rays), received last week from West Germany, proved to be "imprecise" and "incomplete," according to Ayrton Martini, director of the Sao Paulo state police scientific department. Also, there is scant information on a pelvic fracture Mengele is said to have suffered in a wartime motorcycle accident. The injury seems to accord with hip abnormalities found on the skeleton, but unless old X rays of Mengele's pelvis turn up, it may be impossible to prove a correlation...
...respectful 75-min. film, Andropov's wife Tatyana (not even seen in public until Andropov's funeral) reads love poems written by her husband; his son Igor praises his father's judgment and understanding of human nature. Andropov's 15 years as head of the KGB are given scant attention. If there was a deeper message in the week's events, it was that Comrade Mikhail's tough bureaucratic stance surely had the iconic blessing of Comrade Yuri...
...saved, however, several others were lost. "We fear that many bodies may have drifted out to sea, making it impossible to recover them," said a navy spokesman. Some of those who were rescued died later of exposure or shock. Even those who endured every one of the dangers found scant relief after the storm had passed. In a relief camp in Urirchar, Taslim Ali wished to do nothing but mourn his lost son. "How can I live in this world?" he asked again and again and again. Elsewhere, a boy, saved after he had seen both his parents...
Similarly, although those with a good understanding of Colombian history could infer that Marquewz was writing about his native land, the author provided scant clues to the location of mythical Macondo...