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Italian Communist leaders have praised the Chinese for asking the right questions about why Soviet-style Marxism has failed economically, and a highly sympathetic account of the Chinese reforms appeared in East Germany's official newspaper Neues Deutschland. Svetozar Stojanovic, a Yugoslav social scientist now serving as a visiting scholar in the U.S., goes so far as to say that "in the eyes of many people, the Chinese have become the new vanguard in the Communist world." More surprising still are the views of Silviu Brucan, professor of sociology at the University of Bucharest in Rumania, a nation formally allied...
...affected areas, such as Oxfam or ActionAid, then send your donation to them directly. Since you'll already be on their database, this will cut down on their administrative costs. Alternatively, you could give to an umbrella group such as the Disasters Emergency Committee in Britain (www.dec.org.uk) or Aktion Deutschland Hilft (www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de) in Germany. These groups coordinate donations for several national charities and ensure that money goes to organizations best placed to help those in need. If there is a specific charity you admire, you might want to consider giving an unrestricted donation, which allows the charity to allocate...
...malfunctioning Russian chopper. Goodbye Lenin! won the Blue Angel, the award for the best European film, at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival in February. And critics are wowed. "It is grippingly funny, fantastically grotesque and endlessly moving," said the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. How will it play outside Deutschland? The film has been sold to 29 different markets, including Italy, where it opens in May, and France and Britain, where it debuts in July. Becker says he is confident that foreign audiences will get the film's subtle humor. "You don't have to know the original to figure...
...Daimler-Benz Deutschland Über Detroit? In what is set to become the largest industrial merger in history, German luxury automaker Daimler-Benz announced Thursday it will effectively absorb America's No. 3 car firm, Chrysler. Daimler describes the deal as a "merger of equals," but there's no doubt about who the senior partner is here. Chrysler shareholders will receive just over half a share in the new company for every one share their Daimler counterparts get, and Chrysler chair Robert Eaton will lose his co-leadership position inside of three years...
...started out as a good, green idea. In 1991, 600 private firms, ranging from chemical producers to grocery chains, first formed a nonprofit venture, Duales System Deutschland, to help comply with new laws that make companies responsible for the recovery and recycling of all packaging materials. Ultimately, the legislation envisions recycling all manufactured products, including computers, refrigerators, clothing, even entire automobiles...