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Soaring population and the first real depression in the island's modern history have compounded the social stresses of breakneck industrialization. Pro-independence leftists are attempting to exploit the turmoil both on the island and abroad. TIME Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett visited Puerto Rico to learn how its people and politicians are coping. His report...
...Syrian President, of course, may decide to exploit his strength by hurrying to the conference table. After all, he seems to want to strike some bargain with Israel. Moreover, he has never joined the so-called "rejection front" of Libya, Iraq and the Palestinians, who refuse to have anything to do with the Israelis. The choice is now Assad's, and never before has a Syrian decision had so potentially great an impact...
...perhaps the surest measure of Ford's new confidence is that he is finally learning how to exploit the fact that he is, after all, an incumbent President. Except for occasional forays into the primary states, he intends to stay in Washington and make news there, setting himself apart from all the other candidates. "He's the only one making the hard decisions," says an aide. "Nobody else is closing military bases or calling for a rise in Social Security taxes...
Popular Front. Revel admits that Communists can effectively exploit the contradictions in capitalist societies to lure nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween...
...employees, ingenious in their fleecing of the public, have concocted a number of arguments for keeping their legal monopoly, and some have even proposed expanding it to eliminate the budding competition in lower classes of mail. One claim is that, if wide-open competition is permitted, firms will only exploit the lucrative first-class letter market, the only class in which the USPS makes a profit. According to this argument, private price-cutting will make it impossible for the USPS to compete in first-class mail, leaving it with only money-losing lower classes. But private firms have already shown...