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The jitters were high on the agenda of government bankers from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan when they gathered in Basel, Switzerland, last week for a meeting at the Bank for International Settlements, a sort of central bankers' central bank. The central bankers reportedly agreed "in principle" to...
Respect for authority is taught from birth, and in Africa as nowhere else, might means right. Most Africans shrug and accept the winners in the power game. Opposition in much of the continent is regarded as not only unhealthy but also a bit improper. Leaders tend to be military usurpers...
In South America, as a young Peruvian politician says, "it is very difficult to get to the palace by political means; the usual way is by money or guns." The continent has been much dominated by the military. Youth counts for little. When the late Juan Perón won the...
Third Position. During his first two terms, Peron stripped the political power of the hated latifundistas, the landowning oligarchy that had dominated Argentine politics. He moved against unpopular foreign business interests by having the state buy the British-owned railways and ITT-owned telephone system. In foreign affairs he was...
The audience for the play was postgraduate, middle-aged, and middle-browed--people interested in the 1930's and 1940's of their joyous youths devoid of all those sticky, irritating events occurring on the Continent. If this is your perspective, go and, once there, find out if the cognac...