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...austerity measures that the IMF demands in exchange for its loans. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere calls the IMF a "substitute for colonialism," charging that it and other international institutions have become "tools of the rich nations to control the economies of poor nations." The fund has been particularly unpopular in Sudan, where a military coup toppled the government three weeks ago. Before his overthrow, President Gaafar Nimeiri had been unable to fashion an economic program that satisfied the IMF. As a result, aid from creditor nations was cut off, and a lack of foreign currency led to shortages of bread...
...teachers has risen to an estimated 40 to 43, and in the next five years, 30% to 50% of the instructors are expected to bow out. The retirement trend has been accelerated in some part by recent efforts to upgrade qualifications. This spring, for example, Arkansas imposed a very unpopular competency test on all its teachers. And though results released last month showed that only 10% had flunked various sections of the exam, one union official said the test had a "devastating effect" on morale. Apparently so. Early retirements in Arkansas have shot up close to 33%. Teachers in other...
Meanwhile, oligarchies across the region were pondering the uncertainties of their own restive populations. If Lebanon suggested how suddenly unpopular regimes could be swept away, it was a fear already uppermost in many minds. So a number of regimes were taking baby steps toward liberalization, either to consolidate power before real reform or just to buy time...
...well contained, was not amused. A year later, after Beijing ruled out the direct election of Tung's successor, around the same number marched again, this time for greater democracy. Suddenly, Tung looked less an asset for Beijing than a liability?a man who had not just become deeply unpopular but seemed unable to control the territory. From being a folk who (it was condescendingly said) worried about nothing other than the state of their pocketbooks, Hong Kong people have developed a taste for public protest?over free elections, real estate schemes, the environment, even teachers' rights. That form...
TIME: To get a final-status agreement, do you think you will have to make unpopular decisions, unpopular compromises...