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...that if "Deng's bold experiments" succeed, "Communists everywhere, notably in the Third World, would see an alternative to the failures of Soviet Marxism." Yet you say that "Deng's goal is to lift per capita income to $800 by the year 2000." This is less than 20% of per capita income in the U.S.S.R. today and less than 10% of that in some East European countries. Soviet-style Marxism is a failure only by Western standards. Compared with the mess that China is in after 35 years under Deng and his associates, the Soviet Union is Nirvana. Thomas...
...matter how they spend the rest of the day, millions of people around the world start it off with a cup of coffee. Almost one-third of that coffee is grown in Brazil, where the worst drought of the century has recently devastated much of the crop. As a result, caffeine lovers will probably soon be forced to pay more for their morning jolt...
...Swedish attitude that it is not only up to the superpowers to decide about the future of the world," he told a press conference last week. The new Prime Minister insists that he will be a persistent critic of the arms race and a strong supporter of the Third World. For starters, Carlsson will travel to the Soviet Union in April to attend already scheduled meetings with Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep fly that missed being a home run by a distance too slight to become the measure...
...Administration is quite right not to rule out the use of American military force in Central America. The U.S. must keep all its enemies guessing in this respect, from the Soviet Union to two-bit muggers in the back alleys of the Third World. But the political wisdom of "threatening" Congress with the prospect of American military intervention was dubious. It invited a chain of tough questions that only put the Administration more on the defensive at a time when it needs to close partisan ranks: What if the Congress goes along with the White House, but the contras still...