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Market-oriented policies are not apolitical in underdeveloped countries; they consolidate the power of an elite, creating discontent among the poor. In order to continue the polices, the government must resort to repressive measures. For example, when the Chilean government went full throttle on the "shock treatment" which Harberger's...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Harberger: A Deadly Naivete | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

IT'S ALL fairely silly, and the tension doesn't hold up when juxtaposed to Richard Dreyfuss leaving Mason for the West Coast in The Goodbye Girl. Then we really cared, but now we wish Simon hadn't worn his sould on his sleeve for all the world to see...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: One Chapter Was Plenty | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

Such measures are wonderful ways to express our discontent with the way the world works, but they offer small and non-aligned nations no security and ultimately no guarantee that either big power will ever eschew the use of military force to overthrow legitimate governments.

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Necessary Step | 1/9/1980 | See Source »

The depth of its commitment to the Shah apparently blinded Washington to the growing discontent. U.S. policymakers wanted to believe that their investment was buying stability and friendship; they trusted what they heard from the monarch, who dismissed all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics." Even after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Mystic Who Lit The Fires of Hatred | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

In the hostage crisis, some Western analysts believe, Khomeini is torn two ways. He seized on the Shah's admittance to the U.S. for medical treatment as a heaven-sent opportunity to focus all popular discontent and criticism on two hated scapegoats, the deposed monarch and the Americans, and incited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Portrait of an Ascetic Despot | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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