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Even before the strikers downed their tools in protest against prices and shortages, life was not easy for most Poles. In the cities, such commonplace items as fish, cheese, eggs, butter, fruit, vegetables and toilet paper are often hard to find...
...weapon and twirls it on one finger, like a gyroscope; he grabs another one and flicks it away with his heel. No one in heaven or earth can touch this hilarious spirit of riot and disorder, and peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny is an other bit of pantomime, The Three-Forked Crossroad. In a case of mistaken identities at a country inn, two men simulate a sword fight in the dark. Squinting through the supposed gloom, they swipe at one another, only rarely touching in this intricate game...
Once again, Iranian students were protesting near the White House and testing the limits of American patience. As several hundred supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini gathered last week in Washington's Lafayette Square, they were pelted with eggs, soft tomatoes and ripe fruit by an angry crowd of flag-waving Americans. "Go home! Go home!" shouted a gray-haired woman. Yelled a teenager: "The Shah would know how to deal with you. He'd have you beheaded...
...commanders about Guatemala in 1524. It was only the first of many unflattering stereotypes of Central America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom...
...past 17 years, the country's main problem is not repression but corruption. Honduras was rocked by scandal in 1975, when Strongman López Arellano resigned in the face of charges that he had taken a $1.2 million bribe from United Brands, successor to the United Fruit...