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Show OPARADES SPECIALC Intelligence Report kcHH ot nImm mtil nttm4. Pandt mr it canaot By Lloyd Shearer Ml" awfwt. 1982 Government Absentees colleagues. When the police arrested the executive at home, tled to four weeks of and vacation charging "continued paid fraud against the state." nine paid holidays. He also takes off. on the average. 26 days a year. Tip Absenteeism in the buso become has reaucracy rife that the authorities for the first time are arresting employees in an effort to stamp out w hat' s been termed "the national plague." Generally the assenteisti. as they're n Italy, the average state worker is enti- ld she was so incensed that she refused to put her clothes on. The police carted her off to jail in her pajamas. Shopping Edwina, one of many FUipinas r--, A ichard Wool-- I )cott. the I LI via John Broussard (below) Brides Mail-Ord- er i husband-huntin- g Aus-- I T tralian am-- I bassador to Manila, re- Li cently revealed to the consternation of unwed Australian women that 164 Australian men had taken delivery of "mailorder brides" in the Philippines in the past year. He also reported that 547 had other brides-to-b- e left Manila to many in 1 begin with," he points out. they are pretty. Virtually all of them speak some English. They are and marriage-minde- d never heard of women's lib. Homemaking is their career, and they are grateful for a husband w ho can provide for them." Broussard. 58, graduated from Harvard in 1948 and holds a Ph.D. chosen Filipinas. Of late adds B many Malaysians and Indonesians who registered with us have found husbands. Like the sour grapes." For several years. Australians have been advertising for wives in Phil- mail-ord- er what uncomplaining ives the Filipinas make and are trying them out. My prediction is that, in most cases, theyll be more than satisfied." n An Australian who's studied the influx of Philippine mailorder brides into her country disagrees. Most of the Filipinas." she says, "are escaping from grinding poverty. Most of the men they marry are. in my opinion, social misfits. Many of them drink too much. Some beat their w ives and treat them little better than slaves. I predict that more than 59 of these marriages w ill go sour w ithin two or three years if not sooner and that's not Australia. ippine newspapers, believing as do many American and Canadian men who've had the experience that Filipinas make the best wives. John Broussard of Honokaa. Hawaii whos run the Cherry Blossoms bride business for seven years, selling illustrated catalogs of Asian women eager to marry says the popularity of Philippine brides w ith Western men is understandable. To Filipinas. they are raised to respect and defer to the male. To the young Oriental woman, divorce is unthinkable: she derives her basic satisfaction from serving and pleasing her husband. Apparently, the Australians have heard about w news-woma- in sociology from the University of Washington. He has helped about 1000 men find Asian wives. Fully 60 have rous-sar- d, called, submit doctors' letters saving they were ill. Many of the letters are provided bv the doctors for a small fee. Others are forged. It is not uncommon for government employees to work as little as two hours a day. Maria Ferraguto, for example, worked only from 11 a.m. to p.m. daily 1 at the postal ministry in Rome, then forged her time card, according to Check unit price before buying economy to t usually pays buy in quantity but not always. Two marketing professors at the University of Rhode Island. Albert Della Bitta and Robert Nason, researched 2000 grocery store items in their state. They discovered that the same product often costs more per unit in larger New Saint r compare prices. In their study, The Incidence of Quantity Surcharge in Rhode Island ," they say one large unit often costs more than two small ones. prisoner John Paul will I bestow saint-- I hood upon a LJ Polish priest who died in August 1941 in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar, was 47 w hen he died offering his life in the place of a prisoner the Germans had condemned to death by starvation. The man he saved, former Polish army sergeant Franciszek Gajow niczek. 82. w ill attend the canonization outside St. Peter's Basilica. Kolbe was beatified bv packages. This was particularly true of salad oil, tomato sauce, dishwashing liquid and detergents. Their advice: Check for quantity, then raged by the escape of one nodav. Pope jI I size I Kolbe s A usch witz ID the late Pope Paul VI in 1971 follow ing a study of his life and death. Although Kolbe had not performed the minimum of tw o miracles ordinarily required for sainthood, the incumbent Pope has granted special dispensation in this case. In 1941, the command23-ye- ar er of Auschwitz PAGE 10 out ordered 10 others to be locked in a bunker with no food. Among the 10 was Gajowniczek. and Kolbe died in his place. Kolbe. w ho studied tor the religious life in Rome, was the founder of several Catholic new spapers in the early 1930s. He also organized the "Militia of the Immacu-lata- , a Catholic Marian organization, and founded a Franciscan mission in Nagasaki, Japan. Miraculously, it was undamaged by the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on that city four years after Kolbe's death. OCTOBER 10, 1982 PARADE MAGAZINE |
