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SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 1988 11 22, 1988, issue of Newsweek magazine, where the error originated. Newsweek never printed a correction.
According to the Oct. 19 Wall Street Journal, the exact infantmortality rate in 1987 was 10.4 per 1000. This ranks the United States at the bottom of the list of the top 20 industrialized countries. I think you would agree that this record is criminal in the richest country in the world.
May May Gong cuador Dear editor, The Salasacas are Indians living in the Andean plateau, some 70 miles south of Quito, Ecuador. For centuries, they had rather isolated lives in an area poor for agriculture and not much coveted by the region's usurpers, Did you know that five out of the top nine wealthiest men and women in America made their fortunes from the news media?
Samuel I. Newhouse, who presides over a chain of about 15 daily newspapers, is worth $2.6 billion.
John Werner Kluge, head of Metromedia, is worth $3.2 billion.
Yes, selling the news makes BIG MONEY for the handful of superrich families that rule this country.
Socialist Action, of course, is in a different family-that of working men and women. Socialist Action doesn't advertise consumer products on its pages. All it does is tell the truth.
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By MICHAEL KOOPER and ROGER SHEPPARD BOSTON-The 16-month-long strike by paperworkers against the International Paper Company (IP) in Jay, Maine, came to an end on Oct. 12. Although it was the hardest-fought labor struggle in the New England area in many years, the strike was defeated.
In many respects the struggle took the Socialist Action