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Under strong pressure from moderate politicians - Socialist Leader Mario Scares, Major Ernesto Melo Antunes. the dominant moderate voice on the ruling Council of the Revolution, and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo - the President for once stood firm. He went on TV to declare a state of emergency, and he urged the rebellious paratroopers to end their "adventurous counterrevolutionary action." More important, he sent Neves' tough, red-bereted commandos to regain the air-force installations. All five of them were recaptured without bloodshed. The only deaths occurred when the commandos moved into the headquarters of the leftist military-police...
...Arabs. One of Assad's major achievements has been to open up his country to outsiders as it has not been in 20 years. Moreover, he now feels secure enough in his power to grant new freedoms to his 7.3 million people even while preserving the essential socialist character of the country...
Syria's socialist regime even allows a touch of capitalism these days. Entrepreneurs who fled the country after the 1963 Baath coup, taking billions of Syrian pounds with them, are being wooed back. Syria is also permitting the importation of luxury consumer goods like Mercedes-Benz limousines (Damascus price: $25,000-550,000) for a new millionaire class that has grown rich on booming land prices and middleman business. Foreigners are now allowed to enter Syria freely and tourism is encouraged; two luxury hotels are being built in Damascus. The streets of the dusty capital, one of the world...
...develop into a fully corporate state, in which individuals would be forced to act only within their bureaucratically defined roles, eliminating the interaction of human beings as human beings. Unger finds another possible course of development, the emergence of a socialist regime, equally undesirable. Here the holding of power and the definition of ends would become arbitrary. Even if private property were abolished, the desire for power would not be, and the socialist bureaucracy would provide an effective means of enforcing greater control...
Liehm described socialist realism as "idealized reality." He said Czechoslovokian artists are now interested in what reality actually looks like--"seeing things at a close distance...