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...PAKISTAN: still tied to the West militarily, but flirting with the Chinese. Last week a Pakistani delegation arrived in Peking for a shopping spree-with the help of a $60 million Chinese loan...
...vast network of roads, thriving new steel and auto industries, all at a cost of giddy inflation and staggering debt. His successor, Jânio Quadros, recognized the dangers, but quit after seven months, leaving the economy at the mercy of Goulart. In a 31-month spending spree, Goulart literally papered the country with money, tripling the amount of currency and raising the cost of living 340%. When the military finally toppled Goulart, the cost of living was on its way to a 144% increase...
...made a bad mistake by trying, and failing, to purge powerful House Speaker John ("Iron Duke") Thompson. He also lost political points by urging that Massachusetts should abolish the death penalty-at a time when several policemen had been shot to death and the Boston strangler continued his murder spree...
...Russian partners allowed him to sell the world 1,000,000 tons of sugar previously committed to the Soviet Union. With world sugar prices then as high as 100 per lb., the windfall netted Castro some $100 million in foreign exchange, which he immediately used for a shopping spree: buses from Britain, cranes and locomotives from France, trucks and fishing boats from Spain...
When he's been on a spree...