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Organized dissent is nonexistent in such a tightly controlled society; in any case, deep-seated nationalism has cemented widespread, largely unquestioning loyalty to the system. The folksy Zhivkov, after nearly 34 years in power, remains remarkably popular, especially with rural Bulgarians, and is believed to be in good health. He...
Kelly said she plans to retire because of herage, 62, so she can spend more time at her home inWatertown with her husband, who is currentlyretired. She said she is sad to leave, and addedthat she will not continue to work part time.
Nor was press freedom the only area where the regime of General Manuel Antonio Noriega was coming under pressure. The Panamanian strongman angrily rejected a plan to get him to hand over power to a civilian government. Drafted with U.S. backing by Jose Blandon, a trusted Noriega ally, the proposal...
The general's reaction dismayed White House officials. Blandon drew up his plan last fall after mass protests swept Panama, prompted by charges that implicated Noriega in murder, drug smuggling and election fraud. According to Gabriel Lewis, Panama's former U.S. Ambassador, Noriega had asked Blandon for a blueprint that...
Though Japan may be one of the world's most financially successful nations, its citizens worry about their futures as if they were impoverished. They fret over high tuition bills for their children, over the cost of buying a new house and especially over having enough money once they retire...