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Marcel Ophuls' biting documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity," probed deeply into the national anguish over wartime shame, but it was kept off the state-run television networks for a decade...
That was clearly not Castro's intention. Complaining that too many Cubans were committing the sin of "trying to get rich individually," he launched a crackdown. He ordered the farmers' stands replaced by state-run enterprises that sometimes charge lower prices but, consumers now complain, offer much less variety. The new rules for dwellings did not preclude Cubans who want to profit from buying and selling their own homes. But in an effort to end the speculation that had begun creeping into the market, homeowners are now allowed to sell only to the government -- at its price. "The glories...
...protests fell on deaf ears. Parliament passed a controversial bill aimed at stripping the church of control of much of its property. At stake are 325,000 acres of farmland that the government wants for state-run collective farms. While church leaders have vowed to fight the legislation in the courts if necessary, some observers say the stage is now set for a second round of bargaining that could end in a face-saving compromise acceptable to both sides...
...battles at Ouadi-Doum and Faya-Largeau handed Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi one of the most ignominious defeats of his 18-year rule. State-run Chadian radio hailed the capture of the 12,500-ft. airstrip at Ouadi-Doum as the "beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...
...January of 1986, Boston University received federal funds to send BU personnel to Pakistan to train about 30 Afghani reporters, photographers, and video camera men for the Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC). The organization aims to provide information usually censored by Afghanistan's state-run press to the Western news agencies...