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...Life in the U.S.A. should soon be perfect. The farmers of Turkey have agreed to abolish poppy production to save the American addicts [July 12]. Next we'll get the Russians and Chinese to quit making arms for North Viet Nam to abolish the current war. Then maybe we can talk the Japanese out of making inexpensive, good-quality steel so that my husband's employer can stay competitive...
...provinces where poppies can legally be grown from 21 to four. They have also established a system of inspection stations which, by the end of this year, is scheduled to number 53 offices manned by 500 agents. Last week the Ankara government made the ultimate concession: it agreed to abolish poppy production completely by the middle of 1972. "It is," said one U.S. diplomat, "like banning corn production in Iowa...
Like an educational Martin Luther, Illich has gradually become convinced that faith in formal schooling ("the new world religion") is misplaced. His prickly essays on "Why We Must Abolish Schooling" began appearing in the New York Review of Books last summer; a book of his ideas was published last week. Its title is fast becoming part of the educational vocabulary: Deschooling Society...
...abolish this sinecure system forthwith? Unfortunately, the very rules that protect a professor's freedom to stagnate-thereby diminishing the academic freedom of his students-are also the rules that safeguard professors who advocate unpopular ideas or pursue controversial research...
Corporation to direct-in cooperation with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Inter-American Social Development Institute-all U.S. economic development programs abroad. Certain to meet opposition in Congress, the plan would abolish the Agency for International Development, eventually close its foreign missions and bring home more than 4,000 AID employees now overseas. The corporation would work, instead, through international development bodies like the World Bank. Funneling aid through multinational organizations would free the United States from carrying the full burden of development aid and ease the client-patron hostilities that have crippled some aid projects. A technical...