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...past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth as theirs and using it about the way they would if they owned it outright...
...Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges of tens of thousands of national, provincial and local party bosses who are accustomed to exerting life-and-death authority over the economy. Ominously but not surprisingly, many seem to be dragging their feet, if not blocking the reforms outright...
...cropped up anywhere and everywhere: aboard an airliner after takeoff from Athens; on the bridge of a Mediterranean cruise liner; in a downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright, faced endless hours or days of anarchy and wrenching fear, often accompanied by harsh rantings about some strange and often incomprehensible political creed. Once again the terrorist, the sinister perpetrator of violence in the name of politics, showed himself to be, as the 19th century Russian Revolutionary Sergei Nechayev...
...trade bill providing for a world monetary conference to bring currency exchange rates back into line, export-promotion measures, and new penalties against blatantly unfair practices by American trading partners, but no outright protectionism. If these and other proposals seem designed to rub against the grain of a largely contented electorate, that is no accident. Hart concedes that "there has to be a unifying theme" to his ideas, and he is currently pushing the slogan of a "true patriotism" that requires a "belief in deferred gratification, not materialism." Those are not exactly barn-burning appeals, as Hart acknowledges, but then...
...Duarte government and sap military morale. Their tactics, as detailed by a top E.R.P. official in Morazán, will be as blunt and brutal as ever: urban warfare, including kidnapings like that last fall of Duarte's daughter Inés; economic sabotage, like blowing up power stations; and the outright murder of U.S. advisers and officials. "In the long run, killing Yanquis is a form of undermining Reagan's policies," declared the rebel official...