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What's different is the American response. The media screams "terrorism" in bold letters and bright colors everywhere. Time magazine runs a cover story titled "Tourism is a Bust"...well, it certainly was. But the main contributing factor to this economic and vacation disaster is not necessarily specific terrorist acts, but rather what seems to be "fear...
...Harlem. "Those of us who care have to ring the alarm bell." While calling for greater community action, organizers of the campaign mocked the Federal Government's efforts to stop drug trafficking, including the raids in Bolivia. "I'll never understand why, if they're serious about a drug bust, they decide to announce it to the world a week before they make it," said Comedian and Liberal Activist Dick Gregory. "And then they're surprised when they can't find any of the people they're looking...
...neat, orderly system. The street vendors of Lima or Peking or New York City, some basic examples of capitalism, are more chaotic than the orderly but often empty stores in so many socialist states. Capitalism's unruliness means that it will always be subject to swings of boom and bust. The system, however, presents the constant opportunity for profit and for improvement of the individual's lot. Countries that want to develop quickly or stay abreast in a rapidly changing economic world are finding themselves drawn to free enterprise, which lets people loose so that they can lose their economic...
...somewhat predictably but certainly humourously, all Hell breaks loose. They get mugged trying to make a drug bust: "Come on," they say to their teeny bopper assailants, "let us keep the snap shots--and the badges." Their respective ex-wives with whom they are still in loved or at least in lust, abandon them for other guys. And the work on their big case, a sort of Puerto Rican Godfather story, goes awry...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...