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...tell you straightaway that we support the war 100%. Our nation is united against the Persian aggressors. They took our land, and now we will take their lives." The merchant looked up at one of the omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein on the wall and handed his visitor a stack of propaganda from the ruling Baath Party. Said he with a smile: "If you want to know what the Iraqi people think of the war, just read this...
...superiority of socialism," but at the moment it is all too easy to see the inefficiency, the mediocrity produced by lack of competition, and the sluggishness of the bureaucracy. The national travel service is both rigid and expensive: it refuses, for instance, to make a hotel booking unless a visitor agrees to bear the cost of hiring an interpreter to escort him from the airport to the hotel. Many visitors do, of course, need such a service, but those who do not must take it anyway. Reservations on the national airline are almost impossible to make. Factories tend...
...India where the incarnate Krishna lived five millenniums ago. Life among the grazing cows has not always been peaceful. After a shooting incident in 1973, the swami's flock collected dozens of firearms for self-defense, a practice that spread to West Coast Krishna communities. When a visitor died of hepatitis in 1976, West Virginia authorities quarantined the place, citing poor sanitation...
...town's population. To achieve comparable participation in a civic outing, Indianapolis would have to send forth 451,000 people, New York City 4,550,000. The turnout seems amazing. Somnolent in its pleasant, maple-shaded neighborhoods and moribund elsewhere, Claypool is a place where a visitor is surprised at any conspicuous display of activity. On Main Street, the general store has been spruced up, but just opposite the only gas station stands closed and dusty. Jim and Lynda Snyder this year bought and refurbished the Main Street Café (open until 2 p.m. weekdays). Just next door, ugly...
...demand, and desperate hosts tried virtually everything to protect their guests from boredom. The Duke of Devonshire installed a private theater at Chatsworth, and Lord Pembroke held an annual cricket week at Wilton. The Duke of Westminster was famous for his shoots. At half past ten, recalled one visitor, the Duke would approach the gentlemen in the crowd and inquire, "Care to come out and see if we can pick up a pheasant or two?" By lunchtime a thousand dead birds littered the grounds. "The Duke never shot after lunch," noted one visitor, "but while he was shooting, he liked...