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...told the U.S. stands for the rule of the people. And we believe it even when faced with innumerable examples, in the past year alone, of U.S.--backed oppression and butchery of the people. The list is long: in the Philipines, Vice-President Bush calls unpopular dictator Marcos a "friend of democracy," and we continue to give the autocratic regime military aid with which it tortures civilian leaders in complete disregard of human rights and other freedoms we stand for. In Panama, this summer the military-backed dictator Nicholas. A. Barletta was declared president in a very questionable election...
...Taiwan: "What we need from foreign investment is not so much capital as access to technology. But the Japanese are not going to divulge any trade secrets, even to their joint-venture partners." When South Korea's President Chun Doo Hwan visited Tokyo last fall, he brought a shopping list of 47 technologies in industries ranging from textiles to computers. So far, Japanese companies have refused to license any of these techniques to the Koreans...
...Iacocca," published in the tail of last year, is currently in its 11th week on the New York Times bestseller list and is selling better than any other book in America...
President Bok starts to laugh at the growing list of open-ended questions, until the hearty laughter dominates the conversation...
...Nothing the two have done has proven to be illegal, but both men have engaged in practices that, at the very least, betray a lack sensitivity to the ethical requirements of high office. One is hard-pressed to give the two the benefit of the doubt given the long list of sleeze that preceeds them: Hugel, Reed, Donovan, Wick, Allen...