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...most respected is the Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 61,000). "We don't have the resources of the Herald or the Times," says News-Press Executive Editor Ron Thornburg, "but we can make little guerrilla raids." The News-Press and the slightly larger but less ambitious Cocoa Today are owned by the giant Gannett chain. The Lakeland Ledger (circ. 50,000) has probably surpassed the Gainesville Sun (circ. 42,000) as editorial leader of the six dailies owned by the New York Times Co. Perhaps best of the tiny dailies is the Vero Beach Press Journal (circ...
Ghana (pop. 11.5 million) has provided a spectacular example of these failings. Successive governments have failed to diversify the economy and ease the dependence on a few key commodities, with disastrous results. Ghana's foreign reserves have all but dried up, and the vital cocoa crop has declined from 420,000 tons in the early 1960s to an average of 270,000 tons in the past few years. The country's mines, which once produced 35% of the world's gold, supplied only 1% in 1979. Increased oil prices in 1980 took 30% of export earnings. Inflation...
...Ghana has always held a special place in the hearts of African nationalists: it was the first of the black African colonies to become independent, and it was led by the eloquent and audacious Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana (pop. 11.5 million) has remained one of the world's largest cocoa producers, but its economic downfall began even before Nkrumah was overthrown...
...aversion to watching baseball in inclement weather. I went to a game in October once. It was several years ago in Chicago, when the Bears were playing the St. Louis Post-Dispatches at Comiskey Field. I spent most of the game wrapped up in a blanket sipping hot cocoa, and I only remember one play. It came in the third inning. The Bears quarterstop threw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line into the "n"-zone for a home run to win the game. But everyone...
...France is more committed than the U.S. to reforming the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund [so they can better help developing countries] and to supporting the price of commodities such as cocoa and coffee. France also advocates public aid, whereas the U.S. believes more in the play of free enterprise -in other words, private aid, the intervention of multinational firms. But this different approach does not prevent us from maintaining a good dialogue. The Americans have taken account of some of our suggestions. And I listen to theirs with the greatest attention, with the respect that a great...