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Hang the Gardens. Before moving into his new office, Furtado took a sentimental journey home, was stunned to find that the mayor of his backward home-town had spent most of the available public funds to build a hanging garden in a park. Says Furtado: "During that visit home, I decided to fight backwardness for Brazil's northeast, so that no more hanging gardens were built before the problems were solved." Ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek put him to work. After an hour's talk, Successor Quadros confirmed the appointment, raised Furtado to cabinet rank...
...contest for young minds in backward countries, the University of Hawaii's East-West Center should have been an early winner. Billed as a magnet for Asian students, it was first proposed by U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson in 1959-nearly a year before Nikita Khrushchev hatched Moscow's Friendship University (TIME, Jan. 6). Hawaii had the advantage of the island's proud multiracial harmony; Friendship University is a segregated school for Afro-Asians. Yet somehow the Russians scored all the propaganda coups. Hawaii's East-West Center foundered in big talk and bad planning...
Claiming somebody else's land is a favorite hobby of the princes and powers around the Persian Gulf, and they do it on the simple theory that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until...
...uniforms have given way to democracy or to the new kind of nominally democratic strongmen who rule heavily while spieling the jargon of social reform. On the entire South American continent, only one old-school tyrant remains: a trimly mustached, part-German artillery general named Alfredo Stroessner, boss of backward Paraguay. Last week, after a trip into Stroessner's stronghold, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti reported that the survivor is under pressure to retire or reform. Reported Saporiti...
Madmen & Dreamers. Historian Thomas finds an anomaly in the fact that Spain, so backward, should have been the first major battleground of 20th century ideologies. But there is no anomaly, any more than it was anomalous that Russia, also on the periphery of modern Europe, should have been the theater of Marxist revolution. Neither state-of dukes and campesinos, or grand dukes and muzhiks -had made any real step toward the compromise between feudal past and industrial present that other European nations had made in the centuries since the Renaissance. Spain, like Russia, was ungovernable. At the onset of Franco...