California Faces Unprecedented Strains in Coming Decade
A long term study projects California will add 5 to 7 million newcomers in the 1990s while creating about 3 million new jobs. Population growth will outpace job gains, stressing social services and infrastructure including expanded highways and earthquake-proofing. The state may confront a looming funding gap as Proposition 13 rollback proposals seek new gasoline taxes and spending limits, likely failing per polls. Governor Deukmejian backs the measure.
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Center For the Continuing Study
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Oakland
George Deukmejian
Romania's Dracula is dead
A Dec 22 Timisoara march followed mass killings by the Securitate as Ceausescu was deposed. Elated crowds hailed Dracula’s death, though his regime had not ended. Iliescu leads an interim government poised for reforms ahead of April elections amid international aid. Recovery faces revenge scares, ethnic tensions, and reconstruction challenges.
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Nicolae Ceausescu
Securitate
Ceausescu
Elena
Ceausescus
Romania
Nurturing democracy in Panama
The Bush administration has achieved its aim of neutralizing Manuel Noriega in Panama without custody, while urging a shift to stabilize the new Endara government. Focus should be on troop withdrawal, UN or OAS policing, and rebuilding democracy and the economy, with new elections as a first test.
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Bush
Noriega
U.S
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Vatican
United States
Guillermo Endara
Cuba
Nicaragua
Endara
Organization of American States
United Nations
Diet Time Returns as Holiday Joy Fades
A personal essay recounts holiday weight gain and a failed diet. The narrator details past attempts to slim down, including a month on a skipped breakfast and lunch diet, a 25 pound loss, and a Thanksgiving relapse. Now weight is creeping back, and the author vows renewed restraint with a hint of prolonging holiday indulgence.
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Dixon
Rock River
Mt Morris village board rejects administrator proposal
An ad hoc committee report released December 26 says Mt Morris cannot afford a village administrator at this time and that the position is not needed. The board and committee members unanimously supported the conclusion.
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Joe Namath
Beaver Falls
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