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CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Prague began shock treatment a year later than Poland, prodded by zealous free marketeers, especially Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus. Inflation, which totaled 60% for all 1991, now runs 1% to 1.5% a month, which in Eastern Europe passes for price stability, and the country has the lowest foreign debt of all the former satellites...
...latitudes. The mechanism behind polar ozone holes was not predicted before its discovery. Could there be an undiscovered reason for ozone to vanish over temperate zones as well? Maybe so. On Jan. 12 the ER-2 swooped south instead of north. Says Anderson: "We discovered to our shock that there was ClO all the way down to the Caribbean." It was a very thin layer with concentrations of only 0.1 part per billion -- but this was much higher than anyone had predicted...
...this is where "shock treatment," the crash course in economic reform advocated by many Western economists, was supposed to work. These advisers said if price controls were lifted, if subsidies to state enterprises were stopped, if curbs on imports were ended and if currencies were allowed to trade freely, Eastern Europe could move swiftly from communist stagnation to free-market prosperity. On the way, the unavoidable pain would be initially sharper but also, it was hoped, shorter...
There was also some common ground. Most students felt shock and anger--over something. Some had even more intense emotions...
Many are appalled at what they find: treachery by friends, parents, brothers, sisters, spouses -- some 200,000 "unofficial co-workers" in all. The custodian of the files, Joachim Gauck, warns former citizens of the east to "think twice before applying -- the shock could cause family catastrophes. One should look deeply inside oneself before making this decision...