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...Havana its main trading partner, Fidel has only grudgingly opened the door to dollar-toting tourists and foreign investors, begun shrinking the army and bureaucracy, and allowed Cubans a taste of private enterprise. But monthly rations barely provide enough food for two weeks. The Cuban army, in touch with grass-roots sentiment through its conscripts and ties with local militias, started telling Raul of widespread grumbling among the hungry populace...
...just as crowded and yet sustains a pleasant, middle-class life- style; the idea that most Amazon Indians would rather move out of the rain forest; a description of Thoreau as a "sanctimonius beatnik." Still, O'Rourke is funny. In the Amazon he encounters one Yagua Indian with a grass skirt so elaborate that "he was lucky he hadn't been declared an endangered ecosystem from the waist down...
...first orders of business, Aristide says, will be to shift the balance of power away from the executive branch and place more responsibility in the hands of local government, like labor unions, grass-roots organizations, community groups. But to do that, he must redefine the military's role, separating the army from the police and the local section chiefs who established a draconian choke hold on rural Haiti...
Disappointed, we trudged back out into the street, sat on the grass and watched the stars for a bit, and though I can't remember precisely what happened next, I'm sure we ended up scarfing down greasy pizza and guzzling sodas at some local joint...
...Foley-ate," a Perot-like grass-roots campaign, is seeding the Internet's popular usenet newsgroups with electronic press releases urging Spokane-area voters to make Tom Foley the first sitting Speaker of the House to be dumped in 134 years. The group claims to have raised at least $10,000 since it began online appeals two weeks ago. Will the beleaguered Foley campaign hit back on the Net? "We're not really up on it at this point," said an aide...