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Guangdong, burdened with fewer state-run plants than other regions to begin with, has proved especially congenial to the entrepreneurial spirit. In Beijiao, about 15 miles south of Guangzhou, Ou Jiangquan, 49, general manager of the Yu Hua Industrial Co., has seen his firm expand from a bottle-cap producer to a manufacturer of electric fans and microwave ovens for export. "It's not easy for state-run enterprises to compete against us," says Ou. "They have to carry out reforms, or they will have...
...civilian government, which Noriega controls, has accused McGrath of siding with the opposition. State-run newspapers have called the archbishop, who was born in Philadelphia, a "tool of the Yankees...
...week. Outraged workers poured the salt on office steps and chanted anti-Noriega slogans. Firing tear gas and bird shot, riot police broke up demonstrations at the Education Ministry in Panama City and in the ports of Balboa and Cristobal. A day later doctors and nurses at two state-run hospitals hurled rocks at police and then fled inside. Showers of Molotov cocktails, stones and chairs rained on the troops from windows when they gave chase. Soldiers fired tear gas at the retreating demonstrators...
...region's conventional exports suffer a reputation for second-rate quality: outdated electronic calculators, low-grade steel, shoddy carpeting. But the East bloc's human exports are often top of the line. Many of the most talented performers have been trained from as young as age six at rigorous state-run sports or music institutions. Other stars, circus artists among them, possess skills that are centuries-old specialties of Eastern Europe. Yet Communist governments are so hungry for hard currency to help finance growing debts to Western lenders and pay for imported products that they routinely mark down the price...
...pattern that is typical for the country, architects and many of the others involved must squeeze their work on church projects into spare time after doing their official work on state-commissioned schools and apartment blocks. A chronic shortage of building materials is the biggest problem. Some parishes hire a staffer to forage throughout the country full time on the trail of everything from nails to cement. State-run factories are under orders to avoid selling materials to the Catholic Church, but the scavengers skillfully play on the religious feelings of bureaucrats: sometimes they hand out religious calendars and books...