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...population field" might "determine whether we can resolve successfully the other great questions of peace, prosperity and individual rights that face the world." By then, there were an additional half a billion mouths to feed. Most of the increase had occurred in countries like Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya and Nicaragua, with annual growth rates of around 3%, which means the population doubles every 23 years...
...nation. Others are angered by the contradiction between this policy and the practice in other situations, when the U.S. brushed aside the distinction between economic and political refugees in order to further the fight against communism. From 1983 to 1989, for example, 12,316 refugees from Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua were welcomed by the U.S., and this year alone 2,000 Cubans have been granted permanent-resident status under an anti-Castro law passed in 1966. The U.S. has even criticized its staunchest allies when they tried to deport economic refugees from communist countries. On Oct. 17, George Bush fired...
...excess of ours," he says. The CIA regularly predicted that the Soviets were catching up. In the late 1970s, it claimed, absurdly in retrospect, that the Soviet economy was two-thirds the size of America's. While exaggerating the importance of communist regimes in such places as Angola and Nicaragua, the agency also completely missed the ethnic and nationalist time bombs inside the Soviet Union itself...
...American soldier of fortune named Jack Terrell, who once worked for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, created a political storm in the Philippines last week when he implicated Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus in a bizarre plot to murder a handful of President Corazon Aquino's opponents, including rebel Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan...
Gray recounts his trip to Nicaragua with his girlfriend of ten years, also the director of Monster, Renee Shafransky. He also tells of his AIDS scare and paranoia about death, and harks back to his mother's suicide, the point in the book that he cannot get past. Gray then reminisces about a therapy in which he writes his therapist a check every week in a different colored Crayon...