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...shrewd in his dealings with his military colleagues and with the general public. Partly because of strong support from the U.S. and other Western countries, Pakistan's economy is strong, growing at a rate of 6% a year, and the country expects to profit from a bumper crop of cotton. Zia has set as his goal the creation of an "Islamic democracy," but his vision of Islamization is far more restrained than the one being practiced by the mullahs in neighboring Iran. Zia has remained on correct terms with both Iran and Iraq and strengthened Pakistani ties with the gulf...
...just like to watch things grow," is the way J.O. Cross Jr., 58, explains his decision to follow his father's vocation. He bought his own 360-acre spread in central Georgia's Dooly County in 1953 and planted a variety of crops (soybeans, cotton, peanuts, wheat) to hedge against low prices in any one. Profits were never large, but with his wife Ruth teaching at a high school, they were able to send three children through college. "We were enjoying making a living," the balding, bespectacled Cross recalls. "We used to ride out Sunday evenings and just look...
There are, of course, less passionate participants in the debate: farmers and lawmakers who agree that agriculture should be weaned from dependence on Government but fear that the Reagan Administration is trying to move too fast at the worst possible time. Jack Stone, president of the California-based Western Cotton Growers Association, comments ruefully, "Over the years, our farmers have been for more world-competitive, market-oriented programs. Now that we may be forced into them, it's scaring...
...interest groups, via the mechanism of patronage politics and politics of spoils. Among the benefits affirmatively targeted in this way are jobs, purchasing contracts, construction contracts, defense contracts, zoning privileges, land acquisition, and government loans in the millions. The recipient groups include ethnic groups, business groups galore, veterans, tobacco, cotton, dairy, soybean, wheat and other farmers and land speculators. When "social power" was the mechanism of affirmatively targeting benefits (during, say, the era of middle class an upper class WASP hegemony from 1860-1920), this was essentially "politics by other means" to crib Clausewitz...
...popular of U.S. weavers, Helena Hernmarck, has set herself totally against this modern orthodoxy. Hernmarck weaves an unabashed photorealism, often actually working from photographs. This may sound like kitsch. But when observed and contemplated day in, day out, Hernmarck's transformations of photo images into large wool, linen and cotton thread weavings are often stunning and always pleasurable artistic experiences. They are, in fact, a sort of return to the pictorial tapestry tradition of the Renaissance...