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...Falun Gong on the mainland. Officials say the band isn't banned, but the same doesn't go for their even more popular Taiwanese TV series Meteor Garden, in which the F4 boys play spoiled rich kids who drive BMWs, chase girls and engage in other non-socialist behavior. The Beijing Youth Daily complained that the series gave teen viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society"-which, one might think, is pretty much the point of television. Nevertheless, the government banned what parents were calling "electronic heroin" after six episodes. That hasn't stopped thousands of mainland fans...
...March 19, 1998, another Syrian daily newspaper, Al-Baath—the official mouthpiece of the ruling al-Baath Arab Socialist Party—cautioned that “…[then Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is following in Hitler’s path...
...even as Washington's policy remains static, Cuban reality may be on the cusp of significant changes. Fidel Castro, who turned 75 last summer, may have outlasted nine U.S. presidents and everything from exploding cigars to botched invasions, but he cannot outwit time. Nor can the socialist economy he built largely on Soviet handouts resist the unsentimental forces of globalization that rule the post-Cold War world...
...control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared as a guest for various orchestras around the world, finally getting fired from the symphony for spending too much time conducting abroad. DIED. SEATTLE SLEW...
...much stronger shape. The local currency, the kyat, was a relatively healthy 130 to the dollar, Rangoon's streets sported new cars and the government could boast more than $6 billion in foreign direct investment since opening up the country after more than a quarter-century of socialist isolation imposed by recently detained dictator Ne Win. Now, the economy is teetering on the precipice. Growth is negligible, the kyat is pushing 1,000 to the dollar and inflation is running between 50% and 70%. Economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and threats of sanctions from the International Labor Organization have...