Milton Friedman's "Chicago-school" theories, leading first to a wracking depression, then to strong economic growth and a sharp decline in the inflation rate (700 percent in 1973, six per- cent in early 1981).
?In 1978-81, "structural reforms" of the economy, notably ending much state control and many direct services. Under threat of an Ameri- can AFL-CIO boycott of Chilean exports, for instance, the Pinochet re- gime allowed unions to organize at the plant level and to strike...
Israel, a cooling of the partnership with South Africa that has blossomed since 1973 (Prime Minister Menachem Begin heads the Israel-South Africa Friendship League), or progress in the Camp David talks that draws more Arab nations into the Mideast peace process.
'China's Islamic Connection" Lillian Craig Harris, in Asian Affairs (MayIJune 19811, Heldref Publications, Suite 500, 4000 Albemarle St., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20016.
Seeking Third World allies against Soviet expansionism, especially...
non-Islamic states to use Islam as a political tool have never had a happy ending," Harris notes. "Islam is a two-edged sword."
Greek fie "Dateline Athens: Greece for the Greeks" F. Stephen Larrabee, in Foreign Policy (Winter 1982), P.O. Box 984, Farm-ingdale,N.Y. 11737.
Last October, Greece alarmed its Western allies by electing a socialist Prime Minister who had harshly criticized Greek membership in NATO and in the European Economic Community. But Andreas Papandreou's...
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