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...most Latin American opinion, ranging from the center left to the center right." If the Senate were to reject the pact, the Latin left would be able to say, "We told you so," and would probably gain adherents among disillusioned moderates. No right-winger in the U.S. is more fervent in his desire to see the treaty fail than is the Latin American left...
...culmination of Hirsch's arguments is an overall critique of Adam Smith's fervent belief that his hidden hand and enlightened self-interest could be an effective social organizing device. The principle thing people desire--status--is intrinsically scarce. The only way to circumvent these limitations is to overhaul social mores and values--to reject Adam Smith and create new motivational forces in society. Unfortunately, Hirsch, like too many other polemicists, is better at describing the nature of the problem than at posing viable ways to solve...
Jero staves off the competition in the prophet business by giving his devotees just what they want-- old-fashioned religion, with accents on fervent prayer and self-denial: "I know they are dissatisfied, because I keep them dissatisfied!" In the meantime, he has delusions of grandeur and "a weakness for women." To his people, he remains a holy man, but to the audience, Jero is a fast-talking, joke-cracking observer of the endless silliness that is life...
Five thousand fervent admirers turned up at the airport in Maharashtra state to greet Mrs. Gandhi en route to Bhave's ashram. Three times her cavalcade halted as she delivered her first political speeches since March. She warned that Prime Minister Morarji Desai's government could not deliver on its promise to reduce unemployment and poverty in a decade. "The Congress has a program to help the poor and the weak," she cried. "The country cannot make progress until their economic conditions improve...
...other Arab oil producers want to use oil as a means of bringing the West to its knees and destroying Israel in the process. But the Saudis want to keep their customers healthy so that they can sell them plenty of oil. Also, as strict Muslims and fervent antiCommunists, they fear that an economic crisis in the West could so weaken Saudi Arabia's supporters that their own country would be vulnerable to Communist designs. Since the Saudis cannot possibly spend all their petrodollars at home, they have to make enormous investments in Western Europe...