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Just as the first wave of student protests subsided, the government cracked down with a series of iron-fisted edicts and actions: a ban against all political activity, the closing of all university campuses and, finally, the summary arrest of hundreds of prominent politicians, busi nessmen and student leaders. Indeed, even the head of the governing Democratic Republican Party, Kim Jong Pil, was detained. The arrest that proved to be a decisive provocation, however, was that of the government's leading critic, Kim Dae Jung. To justify their actions, the authorities charged that he had connived to foment...
...colonial days, Brazilians consid ered it an act of patriotism to refuse to pay taxes to their Portuguese masters. Such patriotism dies hard. Last year, in fact, after 143 years of independence, more than half of Brazil's 200,000 self-employed doctors, lawyers, small busi nessmen and farmers still refused to file tax returns, and the government figures that 95% of those who did file cheated. Indeed, had it not been for the compulsory withholding taxes taken out of wage earners' paychecks, the gov ernment might well have used up its entire income tax receipts just...
...least one member of TIME'S staff currently has a full-time job of personal communication. He is John Scott, about whom I wrote you in this space last year (Oct. 6). He speaks before college audiences and groups of busi nessmen...
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