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...restrictions. Possession of U.S. currency is no longer illegal, and some private employment is allowed. The timid reforms raised hopes for improved living standards. But a year later, with Castro blocking liberalization, and tensions erupting between the haves and the have-nots, refugees say hope has died. Ration books provide barely two weeks' worth of food. For the rest, families must rely on the black market, $ where 120 to 150 pesos, generally half a month's salary, buys only one U.S. dollar. "We had been waiting four or five months for soap. Everybody has got skin diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Dire Straits | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Everywhere one looks in Goma, swaggering soldiers are mistreating those they are meant to protect. They cut to the front of ration lines reserved for malnourished civilians. In a special military camp, they drive wood-laden trucks, while elsewhere refugees shaking with sickness must tote fuel by hand. But mostly they simply loaf, squatting outside their tents, guzzling home- brewed banana beer and smoking marijuana until their eyes take on a red, glassy light. "These soldiers could be distributing food, keeping the roads clear, looking after orphans," says Martin Collier, a driver with the aid group Assist. "Instead, they just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swagger of Defeat | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...said that in the 10 largest cities in the United States, 4 of the cities had an average ration of 740 students to 1 high school counselor...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Admissions Institute Meets in Quincy House | 7/1/1994 | See Source »

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled "feasting" on Spam as a girl in the war years. Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev claimed, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described the moment in Fortunate Son: "I thought initially that the loss of my glasses in the explosion accounted for my blurred vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lewis B. Puller Jr.: The Wound That Would Not Heal | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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