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Varadero Beach, where rich gringos used to cavort in the days of the Batista dictatorship, is once again a clean, green ghetto for foreigners. Tourism is supposed to be the country's short-term salvation, but it also accentuates the difference between those with dollars and those without. Everyone wants to work at Varadero: hotel maids earn more in tips than peso-poor engineers; teachers and Angola veterans drive cabs; and psychologists make plane reservations. The expertise of the Cubans who work for Eamonn Donnelly, the Irish manager of two German-owned hotels, runs from agronomy to piloting MiG fighters...
...things now stand, Haiti will move deeper into the grip of a military dictatorship and Somalia will slide back into chaos. The U.N. will have shown itself incapable of restoring usurped democracy, and unable to manage large-scale humanitarian intervention. The failure of these operations will not neccasarily preclude the U.N. from trying again, but the memory of debacles past will cast serious doubt on future missions...
Since the fall of Communism, Russia has bounced like a yo-yo between equally unsavory dangers: civil war and dictatorship...
...DEMOCRACY: Everybody's favorite Western-sounding word. The rebel legislators used it, but their aim was the antithesis of democracy -- to create a new form of dictatorship that would restore the authority and privileges they had lost. Yeltsin too has little claim to the term, particularly last week when he shut down newspapers, outlawed opposition parties and disbanded local legislatures...
...have closed or cut back. Unemployment and inflation are rising to the point where the monthly minimum wage will buy only 10 lbs. of meat. Old communists like Pyotr Shirshov, a former army general who now heads the city soviet, predictably accuse Yeltsin of practicing "a pure form of dictatorship." More ominous for the President, disaffection has spread to young people, who might be expected to back reform. "I'm not really interested in politics," says Sergei Mishin, 20, an industrial technician, "but I know that people just don't believe anyone anymore. Too many promises have been made...