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...made his debut in speeches around the country to business groups and in articles in Readers' Digest and Saturday Review. According to Simon, "the ethics of thrift and savings have been replaced by the ethics of instant pleasure, and we have turned to the modern state to satisfy our hunger." Simon says that the United States is spending too much of its income on consumption and not enough on capital formation and investment, that unless the country builds factories now there will be neither enough jobs nor enough goods at some future point--and the high rates of inflation...
Like most of the peoples in the new breed of basket case nation-states, Bengalis live close to the soil, love and have many children, suffer hunger and sickness, work hard, and die young. The Bengalis are by one estimate 95 percent illiterate, which puts them in the running for least educated people in the world. Although Central Africa has the distinction of being the world's most unhealthy region, health conditions in Bangladesh are none too good--the delta is the place where cholera and smallpox originated and is regularly stricken with diseases the West forgot about centuries...
...CONNECTION: I also had a raging curiosity and a kind of a burning hunger to learn some more about things that were simply hinted at by members of the Movement. I frankly thought that participation with the Bureau might help me. I could use them to do some of the things that I wanted to do. Of course, they were using me to do some of the things they wanted...
...After a heated political argument, a member of the Free German Youth, the mandatory-membership national youth organization in East Germany, turned to me, and said in a voice seeking understanding. "We don't pretend to know what's best for you, but at least no one dies of hunger here any more...
Dramatic Proof. The murdered missionaries were not directly engaged in political action or involved in the hunger marches. But their deaths are dramatic proof of the increasing identification of Catholicism in Latin America with the peasants' cause. This is partly due to the influence of "liberation theology," which uses Marxist economic analysis and argues that an important part of salvation is making common cause with the struggles of the poor. The clergy in Honduras deny any link with Marxism; yet virtually all the priests are known to back the peasants' efforts to get land of their own. Since...