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...Cabinet of Ministers, the Prime Minister has four First Deputies; all of them have links with the military-industrial complex. When Gorbachev's economic advisers Shatalin and Petrakov resigned after the military crackdown in the Baltics in January, he replaced them with two apparatchiks from the staff of the party Central Committee. Says Bogomolov: "Gorbachev is less the President nowadays than the Communist Party General Secretary, carrying out the decisions of the Politburo and the party plenum...
Many Western experts have been speculating that when the time came for a crackdown, Gorbachev would lead it. While he is a relatively benevolent dictator -- more Peter the Great than Stalin -- and his powers to rule by decree have been handed to him legally, he remains a dictator. His idea of democracy is a reasonable amount of public debate and a limited devolution of authority to the republics, but a clear concentration of power at the center...
...believes are in bubble territory without causing broader economic damage. Real estate is a key - an industry in China that has deep political ties, particularly at the local and provincial level. For several years now, a lot of people have been saying that property is a bubble; that a crackdown is coming; and that widespread economic pain would ensue when it did. It it hasn't' happened yet, but if it does, you'll know it. In the first part of the '90s, when China slowed sharply, few people in the outside world cared much. That is not true...
...message doesn't bode well for any kind of crackdown. There is more supply - much more, according to four different street vendors I talked to EM] of pirated movies, TV shows and music CDs available on the streets of Shanghai these days than there was just a few years ago. Prices have fallen sharply because of that. If the government had made any progress drying up the supply of counterfeit movies and music, prices would have gone up, not down...
...relative calm in the capital city set in relief a week when explosions killed more than 500 Iraqis across the country and threatened to reverse tenuous gains by U.S. and Iraqi forces in stemming sectarian violence. Since the security crackdown began seven weeks ago in Baghdad, executions in the capital have gone down from some 40 a day to less than 10, according to Iraqi police. But truck bombs in a Shi'ite section of the northern city of Tal Afar earlier in the week sparked a gruesome round of reprisals that saw local police officers executing some 70 Sunnis...