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...children of Marxist-Leninist teachings really a bunch of closet capitalists? Perhaps. According to the report released last week by a team of U.S. and Soviet scholars, citizens in the Soviet Union seem fully prepared to embrace -- in theory, anyway -- the free-enterprise system...
...Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington. An unmarked plane...
When elections were held last week in the Dominican Republic, the two closest contenders for President were old -- very old -- rivals: Joaquin Balaguer, 82 and blind with glaucoma, the current leader, and Juan Bosch, 80, a Marxist and former President who now endorses capitalism as the way to cure the country's economy...
Angela Palacios Chavarria, 31, a barefoot Nicaraguan peasant, can explain in two words why she voted for Violeta Chamorro's National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) over the Marxist Sandinistas ten weeks ago. "Lapas verdes" (greenbacks) says Palacios, voicing a common opinion that a vote for the U.N.O. was a vote for U.S.-financed prosperity. Surely, this argument goes, since Washington spent $312 million over nine years to bankroll the contra rebellion and another $9 million to back Chamorro's campaign, it will now lay out as many lapas verdes as necessary to rebuild Nicaragua's ravaged economy and keep its friends...
...ruling Communist Party has opened Mongolia's doors to foreign investment and ceded its monopoly on power, giving rise to more than a dozen pro-democracy parties. Activists insist that the changes are merely cosmetic. But measured against the intransigence of North Korea, China and Vietnam, Asia's other Marxist states, Mongolia is a renegade, spearheading the charge from behind the Bamboo Curtain toward the more democratic and market-oriented future now embraced by Eastern Europe...