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They want reform, but they don't know what kind. Bright young technocrats eagerly describe a world where capitalist energy will coexist with communist caretaking. An older woman involved in joint ventures insists that Fidel's system needs only modest tinkering. A grizzled mine worker warns against any changes that bring back inequality. Reporters are invited into the country, but top officials decline interviews: they no longer seem to know what the party line is. "There is a new incoherence," says a Western diplomat in Havana. "It's not pluralism, but different people have different ideas about where the country...
...lies and mistakes. "First you have to guarantee food, then you guarantee health and education," says Octavio. "Their priorities are backward. They spend on sports! You can't eat sports." Yet this son of a family that was well off before the revolution is not keen about the capitalist changes. "I think it's an error to give purchasing power to the dollar," he says. "My family lost financially from the revolution, but we gained spiritually, we gained morally...
...lobbied the Kremlin on behalf of Jewish and Christian prisoners. Ruth Graham, herself fervently anticommunist, opposed her husband's strategy, but it succeeded in gaining him access to preach in Eastern Europe. She now says, "Jesus said go into all the world and preach the Gospel, not just the capitalist world. I mean, I was dead wrong...
Undergraduate Council Chair Michael P. Beys '94, however, was not supportive of PASOK's victory. "From my studies of international political economy, I've come to realize that Greece is not easily going to be able to keep up with the European nations without a fiercely capitalist economy...
...storyline of the generic 50s romance involves the love of a soldier and the evils of infiltrating capitalist spies. It unfolds as the screen switches from the storyline to footage from old Soviet films (such as musical performances) to shots of animals in a desert to shots of such natural wonders as volcanoes and snowdrifts to surreal images of a man with huge wings trying to fly. Moving back and forth between these disparate elements, the film nonetheless holds together convincingly...