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Nicaraguans are bound to resent niggardliness from the U.S. They feel that their proximity and the long years of damaging American involvement entitle them to go to the top of the aid list. The U.S. in recent years has had a bad habit of spending millions on wars but little on peace; yet the few millions Washington contributed to this election proved a far better investment than the hundreds of millions sent to the contras. U.S. help to the opposition during the election has raised high expectations that its victory will automatically bring a huge infusion...
...People at Wellesley resent the image of the bus and the tasty name people call it. It's not true," Harmer says. "I have a friend at Harvard and she said they hate Wellesley women. She says they think we can do whatever we want during the week, and then come out and put on a new persona for the weekend, while Harvard women have to put it on all the time...
While the P.A.C. has limited grass-roots support, its vow to fight to the end is endorsed by radical elements in the A.N.C. Mandela's biggest challenge may come from within the A.N.C., where some in the new generation of leaders resent his automatic resumption of leadership and consider him too willing to compromise. One of the most powerful of the younger figures, Cyril Ramaphosa, the 37-year-old general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, declared that Mandela's status "was no different from the status of any other member." Others were angered by Mandela's presumption...
There is at least some possibility of a coalition that would unite angry conservatives in the party with worried bureaucrats at all levels and military men who resent their increasing role in controlling ethnic rebellion. "There is grist for their mill," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow of such opponents. "They want to restore centralization, keep the country strong. It's a prescription for a real Russian-dominated empire." If disorder does increase, he adds, "maybe a leader will emerge...
...civil servants who earn exorbitant salaries, often for no-show jobs. Collor launched a campaign against the practice by setting a ceiling on officials' salaries and restricting use of state funds for the purchase of cars, houses and other amenities. The move struck a chord among ordinary Brazilians, who resent the privileges of the bureaucracy and its suffocating inefficiency...