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...much was even noted in Moscow. The Russian humor magazine Krokodil lambasted Harvard in its Sept. 30 edition for being under the thumb of the U.S. military. It even ran a cartoon on its back page entitled “Mathematics,” which showed a drill sergeant shouting “one, two, one, two” at a group of Harvard students carrying rifles...
...commission. Embattled and isolated, he refuses to give interviews or even to pick up the telephone; an aide who answered a call last week described the unrepentant hard-liner as "unapproachable." Yet if auguries are to be credited, the swelling inquiry may spill over and reach even the "Groot Krokodil" (Great Crocodile), as he is known in Afrikaans. Last week, after rains caused the Touws River to burst its banks, Botha's living room was knee-deep in water, symbolic perhaps of what Tutu hopes will one day become a flood of justice...
...most obvious contrast between F.W. and P.W. is temperament, not ideology. Die Groot Krokodil -- the Great Crocodile -- as Botha was not so affectionately called, was an irascible and imperious man who listened less as he grew older. De Klerk is an amiable fellow who prefers consensus to dogmatic, one-man rule. He has restored the Cabinet to the role of the premier policymaking body, and he has held more Cabinet sessions in five months than Botha did in his final two years. More refined than the boorish Botha, De Klerk has done away with some of the trappings of autocracy...
...grain purchases from abroad, it is filled with complaints about the troubles of farmers. Many articles lament the woeful state of Soviet farm machinery and the lack of spares. By one count, 450 harvesters in three Novosibirsk districts alone are laid up at present for want of parts. Krokodil, the satirical weekly, recently ran a cartoon showing a farm worker running a lottery to get a spare part for his thresher. Pravda complained that harvesters manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk plant in Siberia are so sloppily assembled that more than half have to be fixed at farm repair shops...
...pilfer the factory's stocks or get too drunk to show up. At present, a Soviet worker produces only half as much as his U.S. counterpart and a Russian farmer one-fifth as much. Shoddy work habits are a regular target for the acerbic cartoonists of Krokodil, the Soviet humor magazine. The workers, in turn, joke bitterly about Communism's unfulfilled promise. What is the difference between an American and a Russian fairy story? goes one joke. The American story begins, "Once upon a time there was ..." The Russian one starts, "Some day there will...