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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style democracy will not work in India. The years since independence should prove this. At least 70% of India's population is illiterate. What do they know about democracy? When people are hungry they need food. They don't give a damn about democracy...
Silver Bay, Minn., is a pleasant community of 3,500 people nestled in the birch forests that line the northwestern shores of Lake Superior. Last year it celebrated the 20th year of its existence. This year may prove to be its last...
Unrest among ordinary Chinese may prove harder for Hua to deal with. Mass dissatisfaction, held in check under Mao, was unleashed following his death. Workers are unhappy over low wages, effectively frozen since 1971. There is widespread resentment about intrusive authority, misuse of power by local officials and party demands for constant indoctrination sessions. Existing poverty has been exacerbated by the rising expectations that are encouraged by the Chinese leaders, who talk constantly about the splendid present and the glowing future. Young Chinese resent the practice of being sent from the cities to the countryside to learn the virtues...
...Because we struggle for a decent education, the authorities call us Communists. What rubbish! My heroes are not Marx and Lenin. They are Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Our campaign is peaceful, non-Communist and nonviolent. How many police have been killed in this bloodshed? Three? That should prove which side is the violent one." (Officially, the SSRC has deplored firebombings buttressing its boycott...
DESPITE THESE self-imposed restrictions, during twenty years the company has increased its sales from $625,000 to $5 million in a highly competitive market. This commercial success does not prove worker ownership superior to stockholder-owned companies: conventional firms have had equal or greater successes. The merit of the Commonwealth idea lies in its accomplishment of human objectives which ordinarily are given second place or ignored entirely in commercial practice...