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...Spoonful of Reform The long, sweet deal for Europe's sugar producers seems to be coming to an end. The European Commission has announced plans to cut the guaranteed prices paid to sugar producers by 39% over the next two years. That should shave some €1.6 billion off the E.U. budget, and lower prices for consumers. This change to the 40-year-old sugar policy was widely anticipated after the World Trade Organization last year decided that the E.U. was infringing international trade rules by giving subsidies to its sugar exporters that distort the world market. But the cuts...
...shut. Behind the scenes, the coordination among 10 Downing Street, the British Treasury and the activists - though they don't always see eye to eye - is constant and intense. Geldof came up with the idea for the Africa Commission that Blair enthusiastically implemented, laying out a detailed program for reform. With the precision of a wizened diplomat, Bono has learned to modulate between gut-wrenching appeals to conscience and public back-pats for leaders like German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who face flak for coughing up too much for Africa. This co-dependency is getting practical results: to start...
...variation: who will be in the junta and, most crucial, who will head it. That lack of agreement, and the fact that there's no obvious public support for such a move, has been to Arroyo's advantage?for now. But, warns De Villa, who has launched his own reform movement, "there is a gathering political storm that will affect all of us." So far, it's a mud storm, but Arroyo will have to work hard to keep from getting buried...
...Soviet presentations stressed Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness, and Soviet spokesmen talked of "the process of democratization and reform that is taking place now in the Soviet Union." Reform and democratization are not in the traditional lexicon of Kremlin propaganda. The Soviets even discussed internal opposition to Gorbachev's reforms, implicitly suggesting that Soviet society is open to dissent. Questioned about dissidents inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets held their temper and made conciliatory remarks...
...focus additional wrath on the white dissenters in its midst. According to the magazine Financial Mail, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis recently told its Washington correspondent that "when the time comes," Pretoria will "know what to do" with South African businessmen who have been strenuously pressing for racial reform...