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Despite an obvious need for accommodation in South Africa, the answer to its problems is not an overnight turnabout ((WORLD, May 4)). Political parties can rewrite the old laws and even reconsider their right to African land, but no good will come from any of these reforms if Afrikaner children are still brought up with a conviction that the black man is inferior. Tomorrow's ideals depend on the young, who must be educated to be unbiased. Otherwise, the concessions of today's Afrikaners will have been in vain...
There are many cut-rate labels of suspect quality, where either sound, material or performance is poor. Although these labels may seem like bargains, you should avoid them. Among these are Allegro, Vanguard, peters, Turnabout and Murray Hill. The top quality Nonesuch recordings are fine, but the sound of the company's low-priced records is often...
...years later Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger remained so grateful that he promised not to seek money for more flattops until 1992. But at the urging of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, Weinberger is already fighting for funds to begin construction of two more carriers. The Secretary's turnabout has legislators fuming, and Congress seems in a mood to repulse the new offensive...
...fuss over the pork-barrel issue masks a significant turnabout in the condition of the nation's highways. In 1982, the last time Congress passed a comprehensive highway bill, the debate was dominated by scare talk of decaying roads and crumbling bridges, complete with suggestions that the nation's transportation system would soon go the way of New York City's abandoned West Side Highway. Experts bandied around figures like $3 trillion for rebuilding America's decaying infrastructure. In truth, the Interstate Highway System was in trouble. Traffic had far outstripped the projections made when the system was initially planned...
...countries, insisting that addiction was a product of "decadent" capitalism. Not anymore. In a dramatic about-face, Soviet and East European authorities have begun to crack down on drug suppliers, searching for ways to treat addicts and publishing an array of statistics to deter potential users. Reason for the turnabout: narcotics use not only exists in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe but is growing rapidly in some areas...