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While most Eastern Europeans regard the Soviets with scorn or even hatred, Bulgarians have been unwavering Russophiles for a century. Bulgaria is one of two Warsaw Pact countries without Soviet troops on its soil, and its state security apparatus keeps a low profile. Says one diplomat: "The obvious signs of repression aren't there." Economic growth was 6.5% in 1979, highest among the satellites. A new system of wage incentives and decentralized planning was also introduced. President Todor Zhivkov, 68, tolerated by an apathetic people, heard little more than a grumble when he hiked prices sharply last year...
...lyrical sequence of scorn, Kennedy accurately quoted past statements of Ronald Reagan to support the charge that the Republican candidate is "no friend" of labor ("Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders"), the cities ("I have included in my morning and evening prayers every day the prayer that the Federal Government not bail out New York"), the elderly (Social Security "should be made voluntary"), and the environment ("Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees...
Soleri's disciples are mainly white, middle class and college educated. Many come from what they call "a small California college," which often turns out to be Stanford. Though they take communal meals and share a withering scorn for "obvious suburbanites," these principled individuals are only quietly radical. "Arcosanti is based on solid middle-class values," says Scott Riley, 27, a former "small college" student. "We don't object to sitting around Sundays reading the New York Times, but we refuse to get caught up in working umpteen hours to pay for a nice...
...beginning to give way. In June there were 68,000 foreign Arab visitors to Egypt, nearly twice as many as in the previous June; most were from Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government has not yet re-established relations with Egypt, but unofficial contacts are increasing. Sadat still sometimes heaps scorn on his erstwhile Arab brothers, but he has warned Egypt's newspapers not to make unnecessary attacks on the Saudis, and in recent weeks has directed most of his vitriol against Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
Last week Buckley told Smith he would not appear and treated Vassar and the class of '80 to some vintage scorn. An American literature professor at the college, for instance, had decried Buckley's involvement in the McCarthy era thus: "It was Buckley who offered pridefully in those days the cast of mind and insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching...