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...neglected or treated like "outsiders receiving none of the solicitous attention that occasionally attends the mother and child." These teenage and older men are not the forgotten partners. In most cases the male abandons the female when she tells him that she is having his child. The double standard still exists in the area of teenage pregnancy. Sister Jean Kenny River Grove...
...worker was little better off, if at all, when Mao died in 1976 than he or she had been in the 1950s. But even the Soviet Union has long since had to forget Nikita Khrushchev's hollow boast that it would inevitably "bury" the U.S. by surpassing the American standard of living. Quite the opposite: the U.S.S.R.'s economic growth rate has slipped to about half the pace of the 1960s, and its citizens still have to stand in long lines for such minor amenities of life as toilet paper and detergent powder. On the most basic level, Moscow must...
...party, he created a political crisis by unleashing much deeper resentment than he had counted on. Deng fully backed Mao in a retaliatory purge that sent thousands of educators and artists to jail and banished hundreds of thousands more to the countryside. Indeed, for all his departures from standard Communist doctrine in the economic realm, Deng has never veered from orthodoxy when it came to maintaining the party's political primacy. China must always remain a "socialist democracy, people's democracy," he said in 1979, not a "bourgeois democracy, individualist democracy...
Even as he threw rebellious students and workers into prison, Kadar ordered economists to diagram an overhaul for the country. "It was clear that centralized planning had failed," says Ivan T. Berend, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. "If we were to provide a comfortable standard of living, market principles had to be introduced." Unstated by Hungarian authorities was the premise that in return for that comfort the population would live passively under Communist rule...
Since 1981, however, the standard of living has fallen about 6% as inflation, currently running at 10% annually, has eaten into the purchasing power of stagnating wages. The slowdown exposes the limitations of Hungary's miracle. The economy remains dominated by state-owned companies that still look disturbingly similar to the ossified factories of its East bloc neighbors. Productivity is woefully low. Says Economist Berend: "Sometimes it seems that we have ended up with the worst of a planned economy and the worst of a market...