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...trusties worked hand in hand with the hired help, stealing provisions and supplies ordered for the inmates and selling them in black markets throughout Arkansas and as far away as Chicago. Those who managed the kitchen took bribes as payment for sand-wiches. Poorer prisoners made do with a spoonful of rice a day, plus soybeans, corn bread and water. The food was rancid and contaminated by weevils...
...promote civil liberties, he believes, the U.S. should advertise its own prosperity. He says he would urge the Voice of America and other media to propagandize "unapologetically" on behalf of "American capitalism as a model for economic development." Such boosterism might well generate more resentment than respect in the poorer nations of the world...
Only such a strategy has a chance of restoring solidarity between us and our allies in Western Europe and Japan. It is not separable from a domestic policy of reducing our energy dependence on OPEC and of curbing inflation without provoking a major recession. As for the poorer nations of the world, already hit hard by OPEC's oil prices and heavy debts, a further weakening would create more chaos, exploitable by Moscow...
...buildings being converted then tended to be the nicer buildings in each area," Betty DesRosiers, a staff member in the Community Development Department, said yesterday. As a result, more of the buildings converted now contain poorer tenants, explaining the discrepancy, she added...
...current "volunteer" army is a disgraceful institution for any country that actively advocates an egalitarian social order. In reality, this method of military selection is merely a cruel hoax perpetrated upon the poorer classes of society, since these are the people who are forced into the military by their lack of jobs and other opportunities. A system whereby poor people are forced by economic necessity to risk their lives for the benefit of society at large is hardly egalitarian. The current composition of the army--30 per cent black and other third world people, the remainder largely poor and uneducated...