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Across the East bloc, diehards are rebelling against the rigors of converting state-run economies to free markets. In Czechoslovakia that backlash is helping to break the country in half. In Poland economic backsliding has aggravated, and been aggravated by, a democracy run riot. Parliament is splintered into 29 political groupings, and a succession of revolving-door governments -- three Prime Ministers in less than a year -- have been unable to get any firm grip on the floundering economy...
Despite the strictures, it was not until the cold war that amateurism became hotly debated, largely because of the biggest circumvention of the code. Soviet bloc nations, aiming to demonstrate communism's superiority, poured resources into state-run training programs and put athletes on state payrolls, calling them teachers, soldiers or commissars while paying them to play full time...
...that makes sense. These people lived their lives under a system where a state-run economy guaranteed work for every ablebodied citizen. Unemployment was virtually unknown. Failing to work was a crime against the state--that branded the culprit a "parasite...
...repeat of the Guadalajara episode, last week officials evacuated sections of Mexico City and Saltillo after finding gas leaks there. The angry public mood in Mexico may give President Carlos Salinas de Gortari a chance to privatize Pemex, one of the last holdouts against his campaign to sell state-run industries...
Such accidents are sometimes caused by an industrial plant's indiscriminate dumping of flammable waste products into the sewage system. Investigators in Guadalajara quickly focused on two possible culprits: a cooking-oil factory and a state-run petroleum facility...