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...exodus is in large part an unforeseen result of a well-intentioned U.S. policy. After the September coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President, the country plunged even more deeply into violence and deprivation. The suffering has been worsened by a U.S.-backed trade embargo by the Organization of American States designed to pressure the illegal government into restoring Aristide to power. Gasoline and fuel-oil supplies are scarce, and political repression against Aristide's supporters is fierce. More than 400,000 citizens have fled the capital of Port-au-Prince for the countryside. More...
...Greenwald goes, he will join the 510,000 others who left -- they might say escaped from -- California in the past 12 months. That exodus is still smaller than the continuing migration to California from other states of about 570,000 a year. But it shows that to an increasing degree, California's fabled magnetism is reversing itself, repelling as well as attracting many of the get-up-and-go Americans who have flocked to the Golden State in search of the California Dream. The escapees are being driven away by an accelerating deterioration in the quality of life: clogged freeways...
...California's destiny will have to ride on its economy. But will ; the state's economy grow quickly enough to keep up with its population? That was far easier in the '80s, when growth reached a full-steam 7%. During those years, however, an exodus of businesses from California was also beginning, and manufacturing quietly declined 18%. States from Nevada to Oklahoma are trying to entice California companies with lower taxes and wages, less regulatory hassling and far more affordable housing. One aerospace-component manufacturer with a 40-worker factory in the Sacramento Valley got phone calls from Texas Governor...
...stagnant economic and political system, there is no place for the enormous energy the immigrants bring with them." Unless Israel develops an "open economy," he warned, the Zionist dream itself will be in jeopardy. Sharansky picked up that theme again in the latest issue of the Report: "Whether this exodus will become a great blessing or a terrible burden for our country depends on how our government meets the challenge...
...terminating a relationship that has bedeviled the U.S. since 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev first sent Soviet advisers to Cuba to shore up the communist government of Fidel Castro. If fully carried out, it will also help smooth the way for broader U.S. aid, which Washington has tied to an exodus of the Soviet contingent. Coupled with a U.S.-Soviet agreement announced late last week to halt arms shipments to the warring factions in Afghanistan, the Cuban pullout signaled Moscow's desire to disengage from costly commitments abroad and concentrate on more urgent priorities at home...