Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...socialists -- responded to it, more often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose slogan was "Attack the Party headquarters!" In communist East Germany the Stasi agreed with its Western counterparts that student leader Rudi Dutschke was a "dangerous subversive...
...peasants also find, says a U.N. official in western Cambodia, that "Khmer Rouge guerrillas make fewer demands on villagers than government soldiers do." Banditry in remote areas is a major problem for peasants. The government must tax them or extort contributions to finance local security, but the guerrillas provide it free out of the millions of dollars they have earned by selling logging and gem-mining concessions to Thai businessmen...
...Western analysts expect that no party will dominate the election. Rather, the probable outcome is a "Cambodian solution," as a senior U.N. official put it, in which an uneasy coalition is formed under the mercurial Prince Sihanouk. The Khmer Rouge would not be invited to participate in the new government, but neither would the government wage war on the guerrillas. Pol Pot's relentless hold on Cambodia, alas, is likely to continue...
...most popular play, which is enjoying a sterling production off- Broadway, Matura uses as his model Synge's finest work, The Playboy of the Western World. The 1921 original was set in County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura...
...While Western governments dawdle over assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Soros, 62, delivers -- perhaps as much as $300 million to date. From his pocket. No strings attached. Since 1984 the financier has provided everything from transmitters for independent radio stations in the former Yugoslavia to scholarships in the West for Eastern academics. Through his New York City-based Soros Foundation, he has funded struggling Czech artists as well as education projects in Albania and Ukraine. His philanthropy has made Soros "the most important single force affecting developments in the region," says Steve Larrabee, a specialist...