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...Klerk's so-called multiracial state does not denote racial integration but a system in which each race will have its own rights and freedoms -- one of those being the right to live in a white enclave. Just as much as his hard- line brethren, De Klerk is loath to relinquish what may be the world's most comfortable way of life. That, as much as anything else, is what animates the white position...
...active decisions he did make were not in the cause of democracy. He warned the communist parties in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia not to declare their independence from Mother Russia. Given a chance to make substantive reforms in his own empire, he is loath...
...challenges a doctor's authority rather than submits uncritically to the physician's will and whims. Yet that approach rubs raw against a basic instinct. Patients want to trust their doctors, to view them as benign and authoritative. Even those who privately question a doctor's decisions may be loath to express dissent. Doctors admit that an aggressive or challenging patient can be very irritating. "When you can, under certain circumstances, play God, you sometimes tend to behave like you are God," says Cornell's David Rogers. "The enormous satisfaction of being able to help a lot of people makes...
...most intriguing question to emerge from China's strange week of unrest is why the authoritarian leadership permitted it to get started. One possibility is that with Mikhail Gorbachev due in Beijing on May 15, China's rulers were loath to set the stage with a crackdown. Some cynics speculated that conservatives plan to use the spasm of protest to claim a new liberal victim, possibly Hu's successor, Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. But a Western diplomat in Beijing disagreed, suggesting that the era of fall-guy politics has ended. Said he: "Can they let another guy go down...
...industrial ministries, the most difficult aspect of restructuring will be to close down unprofitable factories. Although the law now allows bankruptcies, very few have taken place because bureaucrats are loath to reduce their domain and fearful of the unrest that would be caused by throwing employees out of work. Moscow prefers instead to merge unsuccessful enterprises into stronger ones...