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...three times more than in all 1983. But eradication does not work unless it is accompanied by adequate compensation to campesinos for the loss of a crop that requires less work and promises ten times more profit than such alternatives as coffee or bananas. Often, however, other crops cannot flourish on the soil where coca grows. At the same time, the U.S. is not about to send huge infusions of dollars to recompense coca growers stripped of their income. "We just can't afford it," says a Washington official. "If we gave money to Peru or Bolivia, other countries would...
From these labs the tendrils of the traffic have reached into Nicaragua and Paraguay, while continuing to flourish in Mexico and the Caribbean. The cocaine business has, in fact, drawn its net around every country in South America except the tightly policed dictatorship of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. "The drug trade is like a water balloon," says one frustrated U.S. official in Colombia. "You step on it in one place, and it squeezes out the side of your foot...
Thus, with a ruffle of pennants and a flourish of rhetoric, the German Democratic Republic last week celebrated the restoration of the Semper Opera House, 40 years to the day after one of Germany's most gracious cities was destroyed in a blazing rain of fire bombs. Despite the propaganda, the occasion was another significant step in the postwar cultural reconstruction of Europe. Dresden, a baroque jewel set gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th...
...takes for granter, the imminence of war, the barrenness of politics and the hostility of the rest of society, said The New York Times's Gilbert Millstein in 1957. The difference between now and then is that in 1984 there is less physical room for a counter culture to flourish, and that we are more cynical than disillusioned. Twenty-five years ago, the Beats could still assert the validity of mystical experience as a refuge: these days, mystics are regarded as nuts...
Fast food restaurants are conspicuously absent from Harvard Square, but, despite city-wide zoning restrictions, they flourish at nearby Central and Porter Squares. In most cities Harvard Square would be the exception, but in Cambridge it's the rule...