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...essence, the East German reform has consisted of regrouping factories into large combines, which have been largely freed from strict central planning. Managers are given bonuses for increased productivity. The historical Communist stress on quantity of output has been changed to quality, and in some instances the most modern forms of computer control and systems analysis have been instituted. The Soviets have been so impressed with the East German model that they have sent experts to study it and have invited East Germans to the Soviet Union as instructors. But the Soviets may soon have to look elsewhere. During...
...Kong for their roles in the riots that had shaken the British colony that summer. The British government refused to bargain. Both nations were intent on saving face. Grey was caught in the middle. His story of the wretched time he endured before the last Hong Kong prisoner was freed and he was released is bitter and compelling...
...yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh, Maurice Denis and the Symbolist poets. Tahiti served only to inject new subjects into a vision and manner that...
...compression of energy, as if he were staging Marat/ Sade played by the Keystone Kops. Over the centuries, in the name of Allah, in the name of Christ, in the name of the god of self-interest, "that precious raw material, the niggertrash" of Nakem is conquered, exploited, then "freed" by new conquerors -Arab, French, even, alas, black...
...with My Lai. Last week it was announced that for failing, among other things, "to conduct a proper and thorough investigation" of the incident, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, former commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, will be tried by a general court-martial. Of those charged, all have been freed except Henderson, Calley, Medina and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, who did not participate in the raid but is accused of having assaulted a Vietnamese during interrogation just after...