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health authorities there admit
that they have lost control of
a venereal disease epidemic
sweeping British Columbia.
The incidence of syphilis and
gonorrhea has risen 400 percent
in the past four years, to
a level almost three times Canada's
average.
A Teen-Age Tidal Wave
+ In 1960 a third of the population
of the United States
was 17 years old or under. By
1985 that number is expected
to reach 40 percent. For the
past four years this age group
has increased at a rate four
times that of the total population
growth. This means a
whole new set of problems
facing America-in education,
where dropouts have been high
and the need for additional
schools great: in marriage,
where 12 percent of the girls
17 and younger and 2 percent
of the boys are marrying, and
where more than a third of
these youthful marriages are
ending in divorce and separation;
in employment, where
automation and unions arc
making new jobs hard to get;
in crime, where police reports
state that 15- to 19·year-olds
are the most frequent offend·
ers In burglary, larceny and
auto theft cases.
Arab Common Market
+ Five Arab states signed a
trade pact on August 13 forming
an Arab common market.
The purpose of the agreement
is to see that persons, currency
and products of the member
countries flow freely. The docu·
ment was signed by the Unitf'd
Arab Republk, Iraq, Kuwait,
Jordan and Syria.
Gibraltar Under Attal'k
+ During the closing days of
September, General Frandsco
Franco of Spain opencd verbal
fire to regain Gibraltar for
Spain. But Spain was met head
on by both the British and the
Gibraltarians. Peter J. Isola,
political leader in Gibraltar,
said: "We are not Spanish but
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Gibraltarians and anxious to
remain so." Most of today's
"Rock scorpions," as the peo·
pie proudly call themselves,
are not of Spanish ancestry
but are desccnded from Jewish,
Maltese and Moroccan immi·
grants. Before a United Na·
tions committee, Britain's Ceo
cil King reasoned that it was
up to the people of Gibraltar
to decide for themselves the
type of rule they want.
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