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Market-oriented policies are not apolitical in underdeveloped countries; they consolidate the power of an elite, creating discontent among the poor. In order to continue the polices, the government must resort to repressive measures. For example, when the Chilean government went full throttle on the "shock treatment" which Harberger's and Milton Friedman advocated on their 1975 visit to Chile, the Christian Democratic Party criticized the approach and called for alternatives that would ease its dire social consequences. In March 1977, the Christian Democratic Party was outlawed...
...discussions with Linowitz at the Israeli resort of Herzlia, Egypt's Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israel's Interior Minister Yosef Burg agreed on a number of low-level categories of responsibility that will eventually be exercised by a self-governing council representing Palestinian Arabs in the occupied territories. Linowitz happily declared that "very significant progress" had been made in the negotiations. Nonetheless, Egypt and Israel remain far apart on many key issues. Among them: security, control of land and water, and the status of East Jerusalem...
...same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though the slalom and giant slalom are his natural events. In an age of specialization, he has become a genuine contender in all events. Can he win a gold at Lake Placid? Says Mahre: "So many things can be a factor. The snow, the weather, is it warm so that waxing...
...version re-creates the story's ironies without ever resorting to voice-over narration. The setting is a sunny resort out of an oldtime picture book, but the drama is full of ominous shadows. Noel Black's unsentimental direction captures Lardner's subtle point of view, and so does the controlled acting of James Whitmore and Teresa Wright. When this couple is stung by bitterness, jealousy and regret, they never quite know what is happening: instead of stormy scenes, Whitmore and Wright offer flickers of anguish...
...Sundays, beginning Jan. 27.) Perhaps the hardest thing to capture on film is a mind at work, and scriptwriters usually resort to obvious devices: a composer tinkling tunes on the piano, a novelist tearing paper out of his typewriter or a scientist pouring foul-looking glop from one test tube into another. But revealing thought in action is exactly what the creators of this new BBC series have done, and the size of their achievement is indicated in the title. The mind they are portraying is that of Charles Darwin; the idea they are presenting is the evolution of life...