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In fact, many nations would decide for themselves. Jordan even now says it will not interrupt delivery of food and medicine to Iraq or its import of Iraqi oil. China and Iran hint they are rethinking the question. Altogether, nine countries have indicated that they may seek exemptions from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Measuring The Embargo's Bite | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Far more ominous, perhaps, were the economic implications of the widespread looting that broke out. The violence resulted in the worst damage seen since the Black Power riots in 1970, when half the army rebelled in support of hundreds of discontented young blacks who took to the streets of Port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trinidad and Tobago: Captain, the Ship Is Sinking | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

A. I think the changes are irreversible everywhere, including the Soviet Union. They may stop for a period, and there could even be some reversals. This is, after all, a revolution. All social groups, including the ruling class, are discontented. Let me quote Lenin. He said that those on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia's MILOVAN DJILAS: Why Perestroika Cannot Succeed | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

For the habit of discontent has been the engine driving their lives. And the only thing left to be discontented about is contentedness. Suddenly Barbara can't stand the way Oliver chews his food. Or his insistence on correcting the details when she tries to tell dinner-party stories. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marriage to The Bitter End | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

But then Wuer found a more compelling cause in rallying discontented students to demand changes from the Chinese government. It was Wuer who, though wilting from hunger, sat across from Li Peng and chastised him for arriving late to the meeting accorded the protesters. "He talked with Li Peng as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Hooligan | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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