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...told a reporter just after his 1980 victory, "Socialism is our byword." Mugabe echoed those same sentiments after last week's electoral success. However, despite Mugabe's crude political analysis, Zimbabwe is not a socialist country now and does not seem to be heading in that direction. According to Marx, who expounded most on how socialism is achieved, this social system requires a revolution initiated by the working class. Also, economic classes do not exist after socialism is intact. Both of these attributes are missing in Zimbabwe...
...next regular OPEC meeting in Geneva from July 22 to June 30. By that time, ! the group's predicament may be even worse. No sooner had the Taif session broken up than Britain announced that it was lowering the price of its high- quality North Sea Brent crude...
Kremlin scientists cannot possibly compete with their U.S. counterparts in % the race of microchips and laser beams that have increasingly become the sinews of modern warfare. The Soviets have long been able to build powerful rockets and sturdy tanks, but their home-designed computers are slow and crude. To close the gap, the Soviets have waged a massive and successful campaign to capture America's technological wizardry. Since the late '70s, estimate U.S. intelligence experts, the Soviets have made off with 30,000 pieces of high-tech equipment and 400,000 technical documents. As a result, declares Assistant Secretary...
...blow up the Malongo oil * refinery, jointly owned by Gulf Oil Corp. and the state-owned oil concern, Sonangol. The mission: to cause a "considerable economic setback" for the Luanda government. The plant is the largest oil refinery in Angola, processing more than half of the country's crude-oil production. The South African government denied that the commandos were sent to sabotage the facility...
...Resident of far-off Los Angeles, where she claims to be a tax consultant, she is knowledgeable about restaurants, cars and foreign languages. It is just possible to believe there may be a soft spot in this upwardly mobile heart for a brief enlivening encounter with someone like Charley -- crude but sweet, with an aura of danger about...