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...Grace. "I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out." Codi believes that the brave one in the family is her sister Hallie, three years younger, who has gone to Nicaragua to help peasant farmers. "I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living...
...Lvov the town hall, bustling with activity, is reminiscent of Lenin's headquarters in the opening days of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only this is a revolution against communist control. Youths in blue jeans huddle in smoke- filled corridors with city council representatives in peasant blouses, discussing plans to purge Lvov of emblems, propaganda posters and street names that are, in the words of one deputy, "trademarks of Soviet power." Busts of Lenin and Marx in two wall niches have already been replaced -- by vases...
...roots of Saddam's totalitarian impulse can be traced to the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit, where he was born in 1937 to an impoverished peasant family. Fatherless, Saddam spent much of his youth with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an army officer who in 1941 supported a failed attempt to topple Iraq's British-controlled monarchy. Talfah's five-year imprisonment instilled in the young Saddam a profound bitterness that would give rise to a nationalistic fervor and an acute desire to rid not only Iraq but also the entire Arab world of foreign influence...
...foresee the imminent collapse of the Communist Party, as happened in Eastern Europe. Whereas the regimes in Eastern Europe were imposed by the Soviet Union, rule by the Chinese Communist Party was the product of a nationalist revolution. Moreover, China is still a poor, developing country whose huge, largely peasant population has had little exposure to the concept of democracy. The average Chinese tends to be more protective of his recently acquired right to grow cash crops than of the human rights for which students demonstrated last spring...
Such caveats, opponents claim, bolster the contention that the Front is a neo-Communist Party anxious to retain much of the old order. "Iliescu is just like Gorbachev," charges Iuleu Boila of the Peasant Party. "He is interested in perestroika rather than real change...