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...good start," declared Labor Leader Edmond Maire, head of the Confederation Française Démocratique du Travail. But the prospect of a Socialist majority in parliament sent many investors running for cover. The Paris Bourse dropped eight points last week, steepening a slide that had decreased overall values 26% since Mitterrand's election...
...murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array of secret police organizations whose homicidal excesses begin to rival those of Amin's dreaded State Research Bureau. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White went to Kampala last week to assess the country's continuing travail. His report...
Western democracies have for years been attempting to contain budgets dominated by social welfare outlays. Nonetheless, spending generally continues to rise at a pace faster than the growth in revenues. Governments politically pressed by inflation, are struggling to overcome special interest pressures with little visible success. The travail of Britain's Margaret Thatcher is the most publicized recent example. But in the past few weeks, President Reagan may have, partly by calculation and partly by happenstance, found the key to defusing special interest pressures and reining in spending The presumption that spending could be cut by close...
...really criminal," says a 24year-old mechanic who lives with his wife and three children in a rundown building in Kreuzberg's Oranienstrasse, "is not that we are breaking the law, which we are, but that shelter is going unused." Another young, illegal Oranienstrasse resident recalls the travail of walking Berlin streets for a year looking for a place to live. Says she: "It was a nightmare. If you came across a place by chance, the owner would demand $5,000 in key money. Who can afford that...
...both the promise of immortality and the threat implied in sin, Buddhism is often dismissed as a weak religion. In reality it offers one of the few elements of cohesion in the ethnographic jigsaw that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...