Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WEALTH FOR THE HEALTHY
...tale of two cities, then: the best of times and the worst. Says Arthur Taylor, former president of CBS and now head of a business organization called the New York Partnership: "What we have in the city right now is an island on which enormous wealth is being created, surrounded by a sea of economic deprivation." What New York has, in short, is a problem. The problem was not created in the past four years, but it has been made more apparent than ever within that time by the fact that on the whole, the city...
...threat comes from within his own party. Mugabe's moderate policies have come under bitter attack from radicals like Tekere, who have called for a hard line socialist program and the expropriation of white wealth. There was the potential for a bitter internecine conflict if Mugabe were to allow a white-dominated police and judiciary apparatus to convict Tekere. The fierce, short-tempered nationalist (see box) holds the third high est party rank and commands a loyal following among many of the 25,000 guer rillas who remain in training camps scattered around the country...
...radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts are still a common mode of rural transportation. A glaringly unequal distribution of wealth and land remains a festering source of political instability...
...political chaos and repression, Guatemala's economy is growing by almost 5% a year, largely because of the country's increased nickel production and its new status as an oil exporter (258,000 bbl. sent to the U.S. since March). But most of the country's wealth remains concentrated in a few hands, despite a growing middle class. State Department experts believe that the country's potential prosperity could avert a total revolutionary upheaval, but only if political and social reforms are adopted. Says one frustrated U.S. official: "What they don't understand is that...