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...Quadros has burst on the world like Brazil itself-temperamental, bristling with independence, bursting with ambition, haunted by poverty, fighting to learn, greedy for greatness. Quadros cries that Brazil is a great power, if not today, then tomorrow. He shouts that he is leading a revolution, a revolt against graft and governmental inefficiency, against social and economic backwardness, against nagging Latin American feelings of inferiority before the world. "This rebellion is invincible," says Quadros. "It is a state of mind, a collective spirit, a fact of life that has already filled the nation's conscience and that...
...Amini, who came to power five weeks ago during a menacing and near-revolutionary period, had set out to do all that a man could to clear the air. He jailed scores of senior civil servants and other important profiteers, purged 33 generals and 270 colonels from the graft-riddled army. He freed the press from oppressive secret police surveillance, re-established freedom of assembly, and began sweeping corrupt and inefficient bureaucrats out of government ministries...
...first, Pak hoped that Premier John Chang, victor in South Korea's first honest elections, would sweep out the graft and inefficiency and rebuild the creaking Korean economy. Instead, corruption continued, and Premier Chang's bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
...Development Plan $150 million more. Prices are rising at the alarming clip of 10% yearly, and a pound of meat in Teheran was a staggering $1.15. Wages have not kept pace; the striking teachers on the average earned scarcely $25 a month. Then there is, as always, widespread graft and corruption which Amini frankly called "the curse of Iran...
...three-year alternative is a false one: it will become no less so for all the refinements and efficiencies that the Administration may graft upon it. It makes no significant difference if University Hall devises better tests: the program will continue, while pretending to climinate the Freshman year, simply to meddle with the Sophomore year, and in effect to foul up both...