4/86Amount Bolivia earned on its exports in 1985: $1,114,000,000
Amount of that accounted for by cocaine: $450,000,000
4/86Value of British government assets Prime Minister Thatcher has sold since 1979: $20,000,000,000
4/86Portion of El Salvador controlled by guerrillas in 1980: 1/4
Portion controlled by guerrillas today: 1/8
4/86Percentage of white Americans who say peacetime military service is a “very important obligation”: 31
4/86Percentage of Republicans in 1955 who were white Southerners: 10
4/86Pounds of redfish harvested from the Gulf of Mexico in 1982: 2,400,000
4/86Amount the average household spends on fresh vegetables each week: $1.74
4/86Rank of The Cosby Show in popularity among all programs on South African television: 1
4/86Total amount NBC’s four Thursday night sitcoms are expected to earn in syndication: $1,000,000,000
4/86Number of pencils David Letterman tosses over his shoulder during an average show: 4
4/86Percentage of households whose television sets have remote control: 51. 3
4/86Number of spacecraft launched by the United States in 1985: 17
4/86Number of seats on an American Airlines Boeing 727-200 before deregulation in 1978: 129
Number today: 150
Percentage change in the number of FAA inspectors since then: +2
4/86Portion of the top 250 industrial companies that had “golden parachute” plans for their executives in 1982: 1/5
Portion that have them today: 1/3
4/86Percentage of Fortune 500 chief executive officers who say they “lose sleep over the competition”: 13.7
4/86Amount the IRS claims John Walker Jr. owes in back taxes on income he earned from spying: $193,873
4/86Percentage increase in the number of Americans planning trips to the Soviet Union in 1986: 54