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That is an unfortunately apt description for one of Africa's most impoverished lands. A once beautiful country with a striking 1,500-mile - coastline, Mozambique (pop. 15 million) has fallen into the double grip of famine and civil war since winning independence from Portugal in 1975. As many as...
Privatization has paid off handsomely in Britain, where 16 major state-owned enterprises, including Jaguar and Rolls-Royce, have been returned to the business sector since Thatcher first took office in 1979. By and large, the companies have prospered. Since it came to power last year, the Chirac government in...
It is often argued that the indiference shown by voters here is an inevitable result of the democracy's aging. And it is true that Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal are young democracies where citizens still remember what it means to conquer tyranny. Perhaps in such countries there is unjustified idealism...
In overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland, the constitution outlaws abortion and divorce and proclaims the Holy Trinity the source of all political power. Japan's national charter renounces war. Portugal's forbids private ownership of television stations. Peru reprints its charter in the Lima telephone directory, filling ten pages of fine print...
Lieut. Colonel Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a hero. A leader of the bloodless coup of 1974 that brought democracy to Portugal after 48 years of right-wing dictatorship, Otelo ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976 and again four years later. But last week, after a 19-month trial, he...