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Other than the accidental synchronicity of their respective coups, Burma and Haiti have virtually nothing in common culturally, socially or historically. What they do share is a constellation of evil circumstances that, taken together, offer a cautionary illustration of just how hard it is for backward and impoverished societies to grope their way from national repression to political and civic liberty. Both are desperately poor: Haiti's per capita income of $393 is the lowest in the western hemisphere, while Burma's $197 makes it one of the least developed nations in the world. Both have been ruled for decades...
...news produced by the Christian Science Monitor, time does seem to be standing still. The program, which debuted last week on cable's Discovery Channel, has ) the meaty content and sober style of an earlier, less frantic TV era. Yet, to its creators, the show is not a look backward but an effort to bring a respected but somewhat stodgy news organization into the 1980s...
...Trade, not to mention the International Monetary Fund, as some Democrats have suggested. The U.S.S.R.'s industry is too hidebound, its agriculture too wasteful, its pricing system too arbitrary and its currency too artificial for that move to make sense. Membership in those organizations entails benefits that the backward Soviet economy cannot derive and obligations it cannot meet...
...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...
...idea that every Cabinet officer must first be neat, trim and well pressed is backward. What is inside is more important than what is outside. The 6-ft. 2-in., 216-lb. Bennett bought his suits off the rack for less than $300 and sometimes got them pressed. "Enough said about that," declared the rumpled Bennett in his National Press Club valedictory...