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Until last year, Ceausescu's government considered AIDS a capitalist disease that hardly existed in Rumania. But the dictator had raised the odds that it would become a problem by outlawing birth control and sex education -- two mainstays of AIDS-prevention efforts elsewhere in the world -- in an attempt to boost his country's population. In January 1989, Dr. Ionel Patrascu, of Bucharest's Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, decided to test a handful of patients for the virus as part of a research project. Amazingly, the first child screened, a twelve-year-old girl, was infected...
...time to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe," said Bush. But an empty hand is not enough. It is absurd to say, as some do, that money is not what Eastern Europe needs. Yes, capitalist expertise and rapid integration into the Western economic system are equally important. But this is no excuse for refusing simple cash. Nor is the fact that so much Western money was squandered in the 1970s. That was a different world...
Officials arranged internships with American companies for the students, so that they could gain familiarity with the capitalist system, said Fisher...
...Bakaleynick, along with three other Soviet citizens, has been admitted to the Business School--where graduates traditionally wave dollar bills above their heads at commencement--to learn capitalist management techniques...
Bakaleynick, who is currently working as a consultant at the Boston office of Braxton Associates, said he "by no means" had any intentions of becoming a capitalist. "I want to be well acquainted with the American way, that is not the same as being a capitalist," he said...