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...Saudis and Kuwaitis have aided poorer Arab states in the past, but their postwar funding will be hedged. "Bad economic policy, too socialist in its orientation, has kept those countries poor," says Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, Kuwait's Finance Minister. "We want to see true market economies develop," says a Saudi finance official. "Our aid from now on will be mainly structural in form. If we can get those countries on their feet financially, a lot of the underlying instability in the region can be alleviated...
...lack of information has not prevented the peoples of the most productive Soviet-bloc nation, East Germany (GDR), from working with, against and outside of their socialist regime. John Borneman reveals life within this often hidden society with understandable, personable accounts in After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin...
...book continues with several case studies of East Germans who had strong opinions about this period because they attempted to assist in the formation of a socialist society. However, Borneman is slightly biased in his analysis because he chooses only the commentaries of highly educated and intellectual socialist citizens...
...typical example of the East German intellegensia on which Borneman focuses is Regine, a film-maker from East Berlin. She dealt with the government-imposed isolation from the West by making the best of her situation. Regine worked for the state, producing documentary films about socialist life. This occupation allowed her to inform the masses. Such work, she concedes, gave her "a touch of the self-congratulatory condescension intellectuals feel in indulging the less gifted." Though such thinking seems arrogant, it represented the dedication of Bourneman's intellectuals to socialism, though not to the state itself...
...Serbian-controlled province of Kosovo have been agitating for separate status. Last spring and summer the relatively prosperous northern republics of Slovenia and Croatia voted in free elections to install noncommunist, Western-oriented governments, while Serbia, the largest republic, chose to retain its communist government -- lately renamed socialist -- under hard-line President Slobodan Milosevic. Those divisive events were followed by a landslide referendum in which 88% of Slovenia's 2.1 million citizens voted for independence from Belgrade. Since then, the federal tax and monetary systems have all but broken down, and Slovenia stands ready to print its own currency...