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...conservative backlash that has blocked his political and economic reforms since January, Deng Xiaoping, the current master of China, appears to be writing his own version of Mao's parable. Deng has resolutely continued to chip at the mountainous obstacles to his reform program. As a result, reformers seem to have regained the upper hand and positioned themselves for further advances at a crucial Communist Party meeting scheduled for October...
...this day it is difficult to pin down just which operations North became involved in. One reason is North's irrepressible flair for self-dramatization. In the days before he began taking the Fifth Amendment, he told innumerable stories about daring exploits that either were embellished or seem never to have happened. Another reason is that he operated far out of sight of much of the official Government. He claimed to have done much of the planning for the invasion of Grenada. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the United Nations, who attended the meeting at which that invasion...
Compared with the entire mountain of debt owed by the 15 most heavily indebted Third World nations -- about $463 billion, of which $286 billion is owed to private banks -- the unpaid IOUs piled up before the Paris Club, while substantial, seem of only secondary importance. But before they begin their own painstaking sessions with debtors, the world's major banks often wait to see how club governments will react to requests for postponed loan repayment. The club also has an important effect on the cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans...
These frenzied efforts at spin control seem ludicrous seven months before the Iowa caucuses. But politics craves winners and losers, regardless of evidence. That explains the headlines generated by a debate focus group of 87 Iowa Democrats conducted by Hickman-Maslin, a Democratic polling firm unaffiliated with any presidential campaign. Their verdict: Dukakis, Gephardt and Simon gained ground, while Babbitt lost long yardage. Of course, such a tiny and far from representative sample is hardly conclusive. But in the game of momentum this Iowa focus group may turn out to have more political weight than its statistical worth...
Should Aquino not issue the Executive Order on CARP, the chances for comprehensive agrarian reform seem dim. The majority of newly elected congressmen are landowners themselves, backed by the landowning class. As such they stand even less to gain from agrarian reform than does Aquino herself...