Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While maintaining a choke hold on the country, the government talks up economic reform and democratic elections, as yet unscheduled but expected to be held in February or March. Newspapers are filled with announcements, widely ignored or disbelieved, of new rules encouraging private enterprise and foreign investment, and Burma is no longer officially termed a socialist republic...
There is a widespread conviction that the regime cannot survive for long -- at best until the rice harvest early next year. The government has virtually no foreign reserves. Exports have almost vanished. Western governments and Japan have cut off all their assistance, which is necessary to supply the military and maintain the decrepit industrial plant, while ethnic insurgents are applying pressure along the borders. "Logically, the government cannot hold on," says a young Burmese intellectual. "Unfortunately, there's not much logic in this government...
...state in 20 years. Bayh has served 22 months as secretary of state, in contrast to Mutz's twelve years in the statehouse and senate, but the young Democrat successfully moved away from his father's liberalism and attacked Mutz for backing tax increases and state subsidies for foreign investors...
...Harvard University is honestly "interested in facilitating serious foreign study for credit," as the OCS Guide claims, it should want to see students find the best schools. It seems logical that Harvard, with its strong reputation in international academia, could establish programs at the best institutions in any country. Travel companies, without Harvard's clout, can offer no such guarantees...
Comparable schools like Stanford and Duke actively promote foreign exchanges--which they consider vital to rounding out students--and use their overseas connections as recruiting draws. Harvard ought to move out of its out-dated isolationism and help students gain first-hand exposure to the world outside the (617) area code...