Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though there is no reason for fish to be inspected any less strenuously than meat or poultry, the FDA manages to examine just 1% of domestic seafood and 3% of imports (two-thirds of the fish Americans eat comes from abroad). Inspectors get to about a third of the nation's 4,000 seafood-processing plants a year and to some facilities once in three years...
...fate of SAIS Cahuide has become a familiar tale in Peru, which is reeling from the double punch of guerrilla insurgency and economic stagflation. The confluence of crises has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy and shaken the nation's institutional foundations. While a military coup does not appear imminent, the basic conditions for civilian democracy are ! eroding at an alarming rate. Approximately 150,000 Peruvians emigrated last year. Rural families who lack the money to leave have migrated to urban centers, straining city budgets and turning the pueblos jovenes, or shantytowns, into breeding grounds for subversion...
...pulled off a hat trick. Under one of the most authoritarian systems in the Warsaw Pact and with a rigid, centrally planned economy to match, East Germany boasts the most powerful industrial base, the highest standard of living and the most per capita exports to the West of any nation in the East bloc. Declared Honecker, 76, in a speech to party leaders that implicitly rejected any reform-minded changes in his winning formula: "If one finds that one has embarked on a course that is right, then one should continue along...
...wise course for the West is to overhaul its long-standing policy of "differentiation," which has meant, primarily, dealing with each East European country directly rather than through Moscow, and rewarding human- rights improvement with economic prizes like most-favored-nation trade status. But, says a Western diplomat in Vienna, "quite frankly, differentiation is a reactive policy, a cautious policy. It does not initiate and it is not crafted to take account of the complex issues that are now at stake...
After more than 30 years of struggling to clean up the nation's No. 1 air- pollution problem, Los Angeles adopts a plan that may end its love affair with the automobile...