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...brief, if Joe Stalin were still alive and available, I would have tried to get him as, a Nieman speaker on the hunch that he might have some interesting things to say. And last spring the Nieman Fellows spent some hours interrogating that notable non-Stalinist newspaper publisher, William Loeb, in Manchester, New Hampshire. This Foundation's tradition is, in fact, as your editorial complains, "eclectic"--and we mean to keep it that way. James C. Thomson Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
This is not the sad by-product of war but the miserable result of chronic mismanagement, atrocious policies and three years of terrible luck. Catastrophic flooding over the past two summers swept the Stalinist hermit state to the edge of famine. Now the unending drought and extraordinary heat of 1997 have brought the real thing. Cornfields--at least the ones outsiders can see--are filled with stunted, shriveled plants. Paddy fields that should be blooming are sere and brown. Land normally planted lies barren; hillsides have been stripped of anything edible...
Meanwhile, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, exhorts his people to persevere in their "arduous march," allowing for no discussion of the possibility that years of Stalinist economic policies may have caused the famine. Yet at the same time, there is acknowledgment that something dramatic must happen. Says relief official Jong Yun Hyong: "We know we can't rely on emergency aid forever." Even to march in place, you need food...
Soros, who was born in Budapest in 1930, lived underground with his Jewish family during Nazi rule and fled to England in 1947 when Russian occupation led to a Stalinist regime...
Soros said that his commitment to creating an open society began with his experience during the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. He said the open society is the antithesis of those political ideologies...