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...seem to think that allowing peasants to "grow what they wish" and "start private businesses" is a step toward the restoration of capitalism and perhaps even democracy in China. This has merely changed the status of the peasant from that of a serf to that of a sharecropper. The peasants cannot buy the land they farm, and this is what matters. The essence of capitalism is not making a profit. This can be done under the barter system. The basic element is the right of the citizen to own private property. In China, all the land is owned...
ITALY. Carli forecast continued growth at around 2.5% this year. Despite that rather modest expansion, companies have enjoyed hefty profits because they have increased prices and kept capital investments low. But the Italian public debt, now 101.9% of the gross national product, is expected to grow another...
...storybook legend of Donna Ashlock continues to grow. She is the California youngster whose romantically heartsick school friend, Felipe Garza, astoundingly prefigured his own death and directed that her sick heart be replaced with his. When Garza, 15, actually did die of a burst blood vessel in the brain, a transplant proved possible, and last week, just eleven days after the operation, Donna, 14, was well enough to log ten minutes on an exercise bicycle. Doctors at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco said that her body showed no signs of rejecting her new heart and that she might...
...moved from the Texas Panhandle to this not dissimilar ground in 1948. Until then, Mack had held a lot of jobs to cobble together his grubstake. He moved to Wild Horse to raise wheat and rear five children. He and his wife were headed toward divorce. One son would grow up to farm on his own: the other would throw in with his dad. The three daughters would chart a course that would keep them close by yet broaden them through association with singers of the country stripe. Thereby hung the tale...
...Enter Arnold Friend (Treat Williams), an older man whose silky threats mesmerize the girl into taking his dare. Arnold is Connie's demon lover, a nightmare image of every male she has ever vamped, and the price he exacts is her realization that 15 is too young to grow...