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Lost Expectations. Another factor in the Social Democrats' resounding victory was the inability of Sweden's opposition Conservative, Liberal and agrarian Center parties to forge an effective alliance. Overconfidence played a part. When Norway threw out its long-ruling Labor Party three years ago, and Denmark followed suit by unseating its Social Democrats last January, Swedish opposition leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed...
Nonetheless, Africans outside the system see change as inevitable. One proposal is that countries should temporarily forsake universities, instead concentrate on building trade or vocational schools. Such an approach, while damaging to national pride, might well be the only way of producing the expertise necessary to develop an agrarian society. "We must rethink the value of education," concedes one Tanzanian official. "We may eventually find that mass liberal education is detrimental to the goals of our country...
...knows better. Not since Mao Tse-tung managed to pass himself off as an agrarian reformer has power masqueraded in such an artful impostor. A Viet Nam-watcher for two decades (Vietnam: Between Two Truces) and a student of other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...
Other projects have failed as well. Six other Volunteers in Ecuador turned effectively to a new task and have now extended a third year to establish a new agrarian reform project solidly on its feet. Fifteen Volunteers in Sierra Leone found their self-help construction project a terrible design. Within six weeks we knew the folly of a major program which was entirely disassociated from the local government. It took sixteen months to honorably meet original commitments and integrate a new program thoroughly into the existing administration. That program became perhaps the most effective self-help construction program in West...
...routine analysis of its future course, Chonchol prepared a 57,000-word report that read almost like the Communist Manifesto. It recommended tight government control of economic and industrial activities, nationalization of all banks, insurance companies, electric power corporations, and communications companies as well as a far-reaching agrarian reform law that would do away with all large landowners. Embarrassed by the report, Frei tried to shrug it off casually as a meaningless "scrap of paper...