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Many of those changes either have been made or are under way. A program of tariff cuts and import liberalization has begun for a broad range of goods, including machinery, rubber tires and textiles. Rafael Alunan, a strongly nationalist local manufacturer of synthetic fibers, decries such moves as a "form of economic slavery, a way to keep us poor." Nonetheless, by April 1988, 90% of the country's imports should be free of quotas...
...many Japanese products his store sells could force prices up enough to hurt his business. More than half of his compact discs, for example, are pressed in Japan. But sanctions are necessary, says Young, because the "U.S. needs to be more self- sufficient. I'm a real nationalist when it comes to trade...
With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
...political evolution is typical of how the Communist movement has spread through Philippine society. The daughter of a rich landowner on the island of Negros, a Communist stronghold, she joined the rebels in 1973, when she was 17. Deceptively gentle in appearance, Justiniani was at first stirred by the nationalist opposition to the Marcos government's pro-American policies. Now a rigorous Marxism sustains her. After spending years in the jungle, she claims, "I know the peasants and what they feel. I have witnessed their suffering. In some ways I have shared it. The army backs the landlords. That...
...book's proposals have received wide support among South African blacks. Winnie Mandela, wife of the imprisoned black nationalist leader, in a foreword to the Swedish edition of the book, says it offers a "broad alternative we have all been looking for." Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of KwaZulu, rarely agrees with Mandela, but he also likes the idea. Says he: "Amid a sea of anger and tension, The Solution may prove to be a rational, workable answer to South Africa's unique problems...