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...sounds true enough. Between these two worlds, separated only by a narrow strait, you have the biggest political, economic and social disparity imaginable. It's more than an island against-mainland matter. It's capitalism against communism. Freedom against control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Scourge of communism loses his TV series to a capitalist ailment: low ratings...
Their spin doctors and campaign managers will, of course, transmute personality into a kind of transcendence of politics. But that is an oxymoron. In democratic politics there is no such thing as political transcendence. That is the stuff of the romantic political extremism of Europe. Fascism, communism, Nazism offered politics as a passage to some higher reality. In democracies, and in particular in American democracy, life is more pedestrian. You offer your program, you make your case, you pass your legislation. The notion of rising above politics is either cynicism or sentimentality...
Your Siberia cover headline questions, THE RAPE OF SIBERIA...CAN IT BE SAVED BY CAPITALISM? That's like asking Can Alaska be saved by oil spills? Opening a part of Siberia that has not already been wounded by nuclear and other environmental horrors under communism to capitalist ventures in oil, forestry and so on will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn...
Where is the proof that communism destroyed the forests of Siberia, rather than greed, which is the real suspect? If destruction was caused by greed, wouldn't that mean capitalism? You should have mentioned how the U.S. is destroying its own forests and that U.S.-based companies are rushing into the former Soviet Union to exploit its natural resources. TRACY BRIEN San Francisco Via E-mail