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...peasant who began his career as an agronomist and ended up as a master of the diplomatic arts. Another is a former shipyard engineer with a reputation for rudeness and arrogance. A third is a tough fighter against corruption who once reportedly fell into disfavor and was sent packing to Cuba as Ambassador. And the fourth is a former KGB chief from the Muslim south. This is the quartet of crucial players who will determine how smoothly and how quickly Mikhail Gorbachev will be able to accumulate power...
...economic: an average annual increase in agricultural production of 7.9% since 1978; a spurt in rural per capita income, from $67 a year in 1978 to $155 in 1983; a 23% expansion in foreign trade last year, to a record $49.7 billion. Chinese construction is booming: nearly half the peasant housing in the countryside has been erected since...
Such trends are disturbing to the security forces, the middle-level party hacks deep in the provinces, and the peasant bureaucrats who have run much of the government apparatus since 1949. They are still formidable forces. State security controls where people can live, where they can travel, even whether they may put on an art exhibition. Citizens who are arrested sometimes vanish for months on end. Party cadres and bureaucrats feel that their positions and prerogatives are threatened by the economic reforms. They resent the emergence of a new managerial technocracy and the promotion to positions of responsibility of intellectuals...
Three days afterward, DEA agents and Mexican police searched the 30-acre ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
...final stanzas the accusations cease, and Heaney, like many another Irish artist, confronts the shade of James Joyce and his own destiny. The great Irish exile warns Heaney to forget his preoccupation with the past: "That subject people stuff is a cod's game/ in- fantile, like your peasant pilgrimage . . . it's time to swim/ out on your own and fill the element/ with signatures on your own frequency...