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...recent history of Pakistan. The tiny class of super-rich preferred to consume conspicuously rather than invest their windfall profits. (Luxury housing accounts for about 10 per cent of measured private investment.) The growth of this economic oligarchy was complemented by the concurrent growth of a powerful military dictatorship, centralized in West Pakistan and supplied with American arms. After the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, the economic-military elite grew increasingly arrogant and unresponsive to the popular will...
...elitist route to development functioned along with other dynamics (notably, US military aid) to create a monster--a powerful, centralized West Pakistani military dictatorship backed by a concentrated economic elite--a dictatorship that today commits genocide with impunity. Examining the GNP as an index of national welfare instead of examining the distribution of welfare, the employment of economic policies while ignoring their political consequences, and the insistence on developing through a capitalist elite instead of through socialist mass participation;--all were tragic mistakes made by development planners in Pakistan...
...People's Force." A second meeting, called by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, gathered in downtown Saigon under the name of "The Congress of the People's Force Against Dictatorship." As soldiers armed with M-16s and grenade launchers stationed themselves near by, one after another of the speakers denounced Thieu and the "unconstitutional, undemocratic and illegal election." Ky arrived surrounded by M-16-packing airmen. Said he: "I ask the people not to participate in the election, not to go to the polls, not to accept the results of the election...
...Dictatorship and Delicatessen. Sir Lew's orbit extends far beyond Britain. He was one of the first to see the potential in filmed TV programs-as opposed to live ones-shot relatively cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones...
...managed by Sir Lew, ATV falls somewhere between a benevolent dictatorship and a family delicatessen. "There are two Lew Grades-the patriarch and the businessman," says one of his executives. "Ask for ?500 because of some personal crisis, and it's yours. Ask for ?500 extra on a budget-not a chance." Grade chooses new programs largely on instinct. His motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then...