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Giles’ time as curator of the Nieman Foundation has been the subject of controversy recently. In February, a front page article in the Boston Globe lambasted Giles for stimulating alumni unrest concerning his expansion of the foundation’s focus to hold events and workshops for non-Nieman journalists...
...British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices, to acute shortages of even basic foodstuffs, a foreign debt of $1 billion, increasing unrest and repression and a "brain drain" of educated Guyanese from what was once one of Britain's most prosperous and attractive Latin American colonies...
...taking off his clothes, stretching out naked on a table and calling for a masseur, meanwhile firing a stream of questions at Linowitz. Richard Nixon fidgets past, inviting Linowitz to the White House in the 1960s to discuss the author's work as chairman of a commission on campus unrest, then betraying his own insecurity by reminding Linowitz that "I went to Whittier College, not as good as Hamilton [Linowitz's alma mater], but a good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied with minor details that Linowitz learned to play dumb with him. To give the President...
Because of the ongoing social unrest, private investment in Guatemala has been almost nonexistent during the past five years. Partly as a result, the gross domestic product will drop 2% to 3% this year. The combined rate of joblessness and underemployment climbed from 31% in 1980 to around 44% in 1984. Meanwhile, interest payments on Guatemala's $2.3 billion foreign debt consume roughly 40% of the country's export earnings...
...Europe if the Soviet Union would dismantle its existing SS-20 missiles aimed at European targets. The offer was rejected, but talks on limiting such intermediate nuclear forces (INF) began the same month in Geneva. That December the Soviet-dominated government of Poland cracked down forcefully on growing unrest. Reagan reacted as impractically as Carter had, ordering U.S. companies to stop helping the Soviets build a natural-gas pipeline to Western Europe and later asking European allies to join the boycott by renouncing a raft of potentially profitable deals. They refused...