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...former communists like Boris Yeltsin. But to salvage what remains of his economy, he has been forced to adapt, imposing some measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that...
...States is "very much concerned about the potential that Iran might become a nuclear power," Perry told reporters during a two-day meeting in Jerusalem. "We do not consider that an acceptable development." Perry, who spent today surveying the disputed Golan Heights as a prelude to a possible Israeli-Syrian peace agreement, said that while he believed it would probably take Iran up to 15 years to produce its own nuclear device, it might be able to buy a warhead on the black market now. Concerns over Iran's intentions were heightened on Sunday when Teheran's state-run television...
Cost alone ensures that the U.S. will not institute congregate care for children on a large scale -- quite aside from the abysmal record of most state-run residential-care facilities. "Whatever the abuses in foster care -- and there are many -- there is absolutely no reason to believe that equal, if not worse, abuse won't occur behind the walls," says David Rothman, a professor of social medicine at Columbia. "The difference will be that nobody will hear the screams." Even at well-regarded private institutions such as Mooseheart, four house parents were arrested and convicted of sexually molesting about...
Haiti's military junta declared a state of siege just hours after the U.N. Security Council voted 12-0 to authorize the U.S. to invade Haiti--if and when the White House chooses to do so. Over state-run television and radio, Haitian puppet President Emile Jonassaint called the U.N. vote "arbitrary, iniquitous and in violation of international rights." He also, redundantly, suspended Haitian's civil liberties and transferred emergency power to the military. In Washington, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Madeline Albright said the military rulers could leave "voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon." BTW: The U.S. Coast...
Returning to Moscow in the spring of 1972, he spent two years working with delegations from French-speaking countries, then joined a state-run law firm that handled inheritance and pension cases for Soviet citizens with relatives abroad. "He was not much of a lawyer," recalls a former associate. "He disliked responsibilities and shirked any job that might entail them, but he loved to be in the thick of things and loved making public speeches." What he did have was the gift of gab. "Boy, could he talk!" says another colleague. "Whenever he stood up, there was a whisper...