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Because there were no independent poll watchers, however, a reliable estimate of the turnout was impossible. The state-run press reported that 78.8% of the electorate had voted, a figure that some Western diplomats considered credible. Solidarity, citing its own clandestine monitoring of the polls, contended that only 66% had cast ballots. Whatever the turnout, there was little evidence that the elections had healed Poland's internal fissures, revived its sagging economy or improved its chilly relations with the U.S., which imposed economic sanctions after martial law was declared...
...giveaway to Third World countries. Washington wants the World Bank and the IMF to supervise closely countries that receive the new loans, to make sure the funds are used for economic changes that will stimulate long-term growth. One specific U.S. prescription: the debtor nations should turn over many state-run operations to the private sector. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust: "Latin American countries have relied far too much on government enterprises, which are usually inefficient, bureaucratic behemoths." The debtors must also take measures to slow down their capital flight so that money from...
OBSERVERS OFTEN flippantly slap a socialist label on many third world countries which have state-run economies, do not guarantee Western-style political rights or do not accept the imperialist foreign policy of superpower nations. But, the Zimbabwean political economy today represents something much closer to state capitalism than socialism. In state capitalism the government runs the economy rather than individual firms. The corporate body is larger and more centralized, but it must still accumulate profits at the expense of depressing workers' wages, just as smaller firms...
...islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor to own radios, and many of those who heard the warnings may have shrugged them off as a false alarm...
Suddenly, Sudan seemed renewed. The change began with drum rolls and music on state-run Radio Omdurman, after which General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister, proclaimed to the country, "The government is finished. The people stand united." Within minutes, the capital city of Khartoum, which had been in a state of paralysis, sprang to life. Drivers honked their horns, radios blared, and hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets, cheering, chanting, dancing, embracing. Policemen smiled; children, shouting, rode on the tops and trunks of cars...