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...that the Communists hestitate to resort to force if "necessary." Arbitrary justice and unfair punishments abound, Butterfield notes, and the labor camp system is just as chilling as the Soviet Union. Struggle sessions, confessions, slave work, and summary execution are the rule in Chinese gulags. Butterfield learned from former prisoners. He is troubled by the failure of Westerners--who have followed closely the terrors of the Soviet gulags--to examine as closely similar excesses of the Chinese system...
...allowed to drift. Part of the problem is Haig. The Secretary has always swung between a cool, unflappable demeanor and irascible outbursts. Strangely, even as he has overcome most of his rivals for pre-eminence in foreign policy, the brittle side of his character has become more visible. Stories abound in Washington about his belittling of subordinates; he is said to have called Stoessel "a burned-out case." Haig's morning staff meetings, says one official, sometimes turn into "a monologue about who is undermining...
...kinds of snow abound in Colorado: powder for the slopes and powder for the nose. According to a state survey, a quarter of the people at ski resorts like Aspen ("Toot City") have got their Rocky Mountain highs from cocaine. So it is appropriate that Colorado also boasts the country's only clinic of its type exclusively for coke abusers. Operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, it has been extraordinarily successful in helping people kick the habit. Its principal method? Self-blackmail. The abuser, who comes to the clinic voluntarily and usually in desperation...
Neglected for two centuries, they abound with sparkling scores
HIIDs main function is the undertaking of development projects in Third World countries. Currently, for example, at HIID seam led by Malcolm Gillis, an HIID fellow is working on a plan to drastically reform Indonesia's tax administration through computerization. Such projects abound and have reportedly earned HIID the respect of officials in many developing nations. One State Department official says HIID is among the most efficient and well-liked groups working in the Third World. "What separates HIID from U.S. agencies like the-Agency for International Development and other development projects," the official says. "Is the perception...