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...Korean peninsula was divided into communist North and capitalist South in 1945 at the end of World War II. The two fought a bitter three-year civil and ideological war in the early 1950s and have remained hostile...
...eager to expand. West German suppliers, keen to see a viable network of small retailers, are advancing goods on credit and helping in other ways like donating old cash registers and display cases. The threat to the independent East German retailer is no longer the bureaucrat but the competing capitalist...
...race to bring capitalist know-how to Hungary has produced a contest between two telecommunications companies, Colorado-based U S West and Atlanta's Contel Cellular. In a $10 million joint venture with the Hungarian state telephone company, U S West is installing a cellular-phone system in Budapest that is to begin service by the end of the year. Contel has linked with private Hungarian partners to form a competing $35 million venture that will start service in Budapest by early...
While most East Europeans welcome the torrent of Western investment, they often have mixed feelings about the changes that it brings. Some fear that the capitalist invasion may replace communism with a new and more subtle form of economic domination. Says Richard Gordon, a director of the Massachusetts- based Polish American Business Education Foundation: "There are still doubts in many people's minds about selling off parts of their national patrimony to foreigners...
Today the peninsula is still divided near the 38th parallel -- half communist, half capitalist; half dependent on Soviet military and economic support, half still reliant on the presence of 43,000 U.S. troops. But the old reasons for these alliances are fading. The Soviet Union is no longer eager -- or able -- to finance the aggressive extension of communism by its satellites, and communism itself is a dying ideology. South Korea has risen from the ashes to become an economic powerhouse capable of assuming most of its own defense against a diminished threat from the North. Yet the U.S. is still...