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...President, López Portillo inherits leadership of a nation that is rich in contrast and color but impoverished in terms of national fulfillment. A small percentage of the population is comfortably rich; a large portion is lamentably poor. Lavish playgrounds for international jet-setters exist almost side by side with villages still run by caciques, or chieftains, who seem to belong to the last century...
Political chaos was made worse by Jamaica's economic disorder, for which Manley has to shoulder some of the blame. For the past two years he has been committed to what he calls "democratic socialism"−meaning buying into the island's huge bauxite industry and lavish doses of public spending on labor-intensive road building and land reform...
Throughout, the L.D.P. lived in symbiosis with the industrial giants of "Japan Inc." At election time, lavish flows of corporate cash fueled the L.D.P. campaigns. Frequent scandals were quickly buried, and in the heady atmosphere of growth, few cared. But all that has changed since 1974, when Miki stepped in as the L.D.P.'s compromise choice to replace disgraced Premier Tanaka. The L.D.P.'s decline may be hard to reverse. Says one high Miki aide: "I would not rule out a breakup of the party. We're in for a period of basic political realignment in Japan...
They had no lavish corporate suites, no direct authority over other senior Hughes employees, practically no business experience. They did, however, have two striking advantages: they were, with a single exception, adherents to Mormonism, a religion that embodies Howard Hughes' aversion to drinking and smoking; and they had direct, unlimited access to the king himself. They also never talked; one reporter described them as "men without mouths...
Production of the plays was made possible by a $900 grant from the Office of the Arts. Costuming for the production is lavish, and St. John's Episcopal Church on Brattle Street is used as an appropriate backdrop for the plays' subject matter...