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Even if the government has the will, the local officials who control the town halls also control the flow of government money and, Mendez claims, use it to bolster their friends and freeze out villages that do not support them. It is an accusation heard throughout Mexico: public works money goes to cronies of the bosses...
...reforms, including speedy rural electrification; more housing, health clinics and schools; more bilingual education for Indian communities; new state legislative boundaries to increase Indian representation; plots of land for peasants; and reform of the repressive justice system. The government also promised to convene a special session of Congress to bolster laws prohibiting discrimination against Indians, and agreed to help Indian communities compete fairly under the North American Free Trade Agreement...
Palestinians should understand that this peace plan can only work if they convince the Israeli people that they harbor no hostile intentions. Popular support in Israel for concessions will disappear unless Palestinians bolster the shaky Israeli confidence in the PLO's commitment to Israeli in security. The PLO should cooperate with Israel in securing against infiltration by potentially violent anti-Israel extremists...
...were struggling last week to cope with a government order that went into effect Jan. 1 banning trade in currencies other than the Russian ruble -- notably the American dollar, which accounts for the lion's share of sales. The move to get dollars out of circulation is intended to bolster confidence in the faltering Russian currency, but it has proved a real headache for Russia's novy rich, who have got used to earning greenbacks through lucrative foreign business connections and using the proceeds to buy luxury goods at exclusive hard-currency stores. With the official exchange rate hovering around...
...construct, Fire with Fire is flawed. Wolf shifts disconcertingly from serious argument to Camille Paglia-like flights of rhetoric -- something no one should ever, ever try -- to lengthy lists of examples to bolster her arguments. In the course of sorting through this debris of detail, the reader may well forget the original point...