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...real criticism of Mitterrand's economic program is not so much that it will precipitate disaster; it is rather that the whole concept of nationalization and Keynesian government intervention seems to belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment...
...three minutes later he found out I was Jewish, he'd spit on me. I hadn't changed in those three minutes." "If the world changes, we feel it." "On the trolley one day, a Pole told me, 'You see those buildings--they belong to the Jews...There will be a time pretty soon when we will own those buildings...'" This last incident occured in August...
...forms of terrorism. I have further argued that, if my father's death of slow starvation in a Vietnamese reeducation camp is to have been at all worthwhile. I hope it has served the cause of free speech and human rights through out the world, including Vietnam. These rights belong to Ngo Vinh Long as well as to every other human being...
...policy, they guard against making the Salvadorans dependent on U.S. logistics and technology. "That's something we are now particularly keyed against," says one young officer, "not to go in and force our system on theirs." Finally, for all their frustration, the Green Berets definitely believe they belong in El Salvador. "As long as the U.S. supports this government," concludes one of the group's leaders, "there is a role for the military. They want us here, and we can help...
This February, when Pope John Paul II was in the Philippines, he addressed China and declared, "Whatever difficulties there have been, they belong to the past." Significantly, the Pope has not risked mainland disapproval by appointing a nuncio to Nationalist China, or naming a Cardinal to succeed the late Paul Cardinal Yu Pin of Nanjing, who went to Taiwan in 1949 with the Nationalists. The Pope pointedly refers to that island's religious hierarchy not as bishops of China but as "the bishops of Taiwan." Vatican insiders believe he would drop diplomatic ties with Taiwan in return for restored...