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...ownership of land. He promised "a simple and understandable mechanism for handing land over to citizens." By no coincidence, that is a capitalistic reform that former communists have fought most bitterly and, so far, successfully. Yeltsin's other economic pledges were a mixture of capitalism -- making the privatization of state-run industry that has already occurred "irreversible" and offering long-overdue tax breaks to small and medium-size businesses -- and good old populist pork barrel, including public works programs to combat unemployment...
Rather than come right out with it, the Israelis hinted at and leaked their charge after Mohammad Jarad and Mohammad Salah, two naturalized Americans, were arrested as Hamas organizers in the occupied territories. Ehud Yaari, an Arab affairs commentator for the state-run Israel Television, said a shaken Hamas leadership had selected the U.S. as a safe haven and moved its "nerve center" there from the occupied territories. The Hamas militant underground, he said, consisted of four regional commands now directed from the U.S. headquarters...
Imagine a society in which only the affluent could buy their own shoes. The poor and a significant percentage of the middle class paid taxes to support a state-run distribution system which supplied shoes--a public shoe system, if you will...
Monitors from other European states said the campaign had been "tainted by shameless propaganda in the state-run media," which labeled Milosevic's opponent, the Serbian-born American businessman Milan Panic, a spy and a traitor. The poll watchers also reported that election lists had been rigged in Milosevic's favor and that 5% of potential voters were prevented from casting their ballots...
...busy street in Moscow, pure capitalism is on display. What was once the black market is now legitimate entrepreneurship in the thriving sidewalk kiosks that peddle everything from Dutch chocolates to Japanese tape recorders. Shortages -- and long lines of shoppers -- have diminished even at state-run food stores since price controls were lifted. With inflation racing ahead at an annual rate of more than 1,000%, most middle-class people cannot afford to buy much. Yet high prices don't bother the newly rich who drive by in Mercedes and BMWs on their way to nightclubs that charge...