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...drama is a relentlessly pumped-up footnote to Stalinist repression. It is a police-state curio dating from 1932. After 18 months of rehearsals, The Suicide was banned by the Moscow censors on the night of its dress rehearsal, and its author, Nikolai Erdman (1902-70), fell into abject disfavor...
...Western Europe, where planning within capitalism originated, such government direction has fallen into disfavor. France's Le Plan has operated since 1946, but the program is now virtually ignored; the Eighth Plan, covering 1981-85, will not even contain specific growth targets. In the past, programs directed by the French government produced too many white elephants, like the supersonic Concorde and the steelmaking complex near Marseille, that look brilliant to a bureaucrat but flop in the marketplace. Admits François de Combret, the top French presidential economic adviser: "A bureaucrat like myself, with his butt in a chair...
...first time, Moscow publicly acknowledged that all was not well. Pravda admitted on its front page that Kabul was beset by "unrest" and "insurgency." In the frankest admission of all, the official news agency TASS indicated that the Karmal government was in disfavor with a large part of the population. Another surprising admission was attributed by the Italian magazine Panorama to a Soviet general identified as Mikhail Kirian. He publicly conceded that "in the Afghan army, there have been deser tions," and that "the Afghans will have to work hard to put the army in order...
...political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force-the one which can't bear to be outside the pale, can't bear to be in disfavor, can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome.-Mark Twain...
Ojjeh's rash of sales started rumors that he was in financial disfavor with the Saudi royal family. Their patronage is crucial to the Syrian-born Ojjeh, whose checkered career includes a Sorbonne degree in philosophy and two convictions on French smuggling raps. In recent years he has made millions as an arms procurer and builder of military bases in Saudi Arabia. Ojjeh's spokesman dismissed the reports as nonsense, and at week's end he was said to be negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf...