Word: commandeering
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...initial months of his presidency were a heady time, as Duarte set his agenda in motion. He created a commission to investigate death-squad killings, shuffled the command of the security forces and toured the richer capitals of the West in search of foreign aid. He found his most receptive audience in Washington, where a charmed Congress soon approved more than $200 million in military and economic assistance. Over the next five years, U.S. spending would surpass $3 billion; Washington's faith in Duarte endured long after his support at home had eroded...
...breed of apparatchik. The press department of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry arranged an interview with a 34-year-old Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade named Andrei Lukanov. He spoke idiomatic English, kept the party-line claptrap to a merciful minimum and talked candidly about the "shortcomings" of a command economy and even about the need to look for "a synthesis between Marx and the market...
Readers of Martin Amis' earlier fictions -- notably Success, Money: A Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
What might be called Perestroika I has failed. The main reason: despite the ministrations and exhortations of its reformist rulers, the Soviet Union still has a command economy and a totalitarian political system. Managers instinctively wait for orders from above; regional leaders still look to Moscow; and everyone looks to the party, to that body that met and argued and finally bent to Gorbachev's will in Moscow last week: the Central Committee. The very word center has connotations in Russian with which Gorbachev is doing battle as he prepares for his next five years, for Perestroika...
...over Eastern Europe's future, everyone agrees about two things. First, that the quick, magical part is over and the hard, slow, painful part has just begun. And second, that while free markets will make these nations more prosperous in the end, the wrenching and novel process of converting command economies into free markets will make things even worse for at least a while. Poland's courageous total-immersion reform plan, begun Jan. 1, is expected to reduce workers' wages by 20% from their already desperate levels. Poland begins this experiment owing $40 billion to the West from the disastrous...