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...independence; in Suva. Born into a family of clan chieftains, Mara helped draft a constitution that sought to balance the rights of native Fijians and residents of Indian descent prior to the end of British rule. He served as Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992, aligning the country against communism, and was appointed to the largely ceremonial presidency in 1993, only to be forced out in 2000 when an armed gang stormed the Parliament and held the Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage for 56 days...
...exaggerated, says Tomás Drtina, managing partner of INCOMA Research, a market research company in Prague. "I would say 5% of the population acts in this way," he says. "It's the same people who filled their bathtubs with gasoline when prices were to rise under communism. Now they go and buy 30 kg of rice." Still, the panic is a political windfall for conservative parties who opposed enlargement. For example, Poland's radical Samoobrona (Self-Defense) party has surged in opinion polls from 17% approval in February to 29% in April. Whether accession's opponents can capitalize...
...China has suffered previous boom-and-bust cycles in its transition from communism to capitalism. In 1994, GDP growth exceeded 11% and inflation soared to 24%. To restore economic stability, the then Vice Premier and central bank governor Zhu Rongji choked off bank loans to cool runaway borrowing and spending. The subsequent slowdown threw millions of mainlanders out of work, but because China was relatively isolated from the global economy, few other countries shared the pain. Today, a sharp contraction in China would have much wider impact. The mainland is one of the world's largest manufacturing bases...
...Clarke for his Viewpoint "The New Terrorist Threat" [March 22]. As Clarke noted, "[M]aybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us." That seems like a better idea than blindly lashing out at them. If we had intelligently examined the reasons for fascism in the 1930s or communism during the cold war, perhaps we would have been better able to understand and deal with them. If we comprehend what drives otherwise apparently intelligent and moral people to kill themselves and innocent victims, we can alter the circumstances and perhaps our behavior. That does not mean kowtowing to terrorists...
...Anthony LaPaglia) and Joe Shumate (Liev Schreiber) have just left the 1996 presidential campaign of Republican California Governor Pete Wilson. Idle and itchy, they get a call seeking help for a presidential candidate in even worse straits: Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...