... billion in 1996). However the debts are limited (about $118 billion in 1998). China favours the establishment of foreign company (273 000 in 1996 who employ 17 millions of people) and China buys a lot of foreign technology to improve the industrial sector. But the most important point is the creation of the SEZ ... year (on average), the investment by 10.5% and the consumption by 8%. Standards of living increase: 1978 1991 Number of bicycles for 100 Hab. 7.7% 36.2% TV equipment 0.3% 17.8% An urban middle class is appearing and a rich class is beginning to be a big consumer. It's the begin...

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... it is not the collapse of the U.S.S.R. that led to the economic downfall, but rather it was years of poor financial responsibility by the Soviet leaders devoting as much as 17% of GDP to military spending.19 However despite these prerequisites, the actual collapse and lack of leadership was the spark leading to the economic debacle. As Western influences flowed in ... cultural shock. Due to a lack of stable jurisdiction and law enforcement, people began using unfair economic manipulation (financial pyramids), bribery, and engagement in socially degrading behavior. Population decreased d...

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... more of a focus on the potential ability of the army to fight. It was not until the nineteen seventies that this view began to change. The focus shifted from the high command to the regular soldiers. These were the soldiers that actually would have been the ones that dirtied their hands. In the so-called "criminal orders" that were given at ... , the sick, and especially children. An example of such behavior can be seen when German troops invaded Yugoslavia in April of 1941 and subsequently subdivided the country. This left approximately 17,000 Jews living in Serbia under German rule. On...

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... Kennedy wanted to dam the soviet influence on Cuba - because of this he put at the beginning of his term of office in april 1961 a decision which first inflicted (zufugen) high damage in foreign politics - he allowed the invasion plan of the CIA. On april 10th 1961 an in the USA trained invasion troop of living in exile cubanes landed in ... the National Security Council). With this federation of personal advisors the US President had an advantage to Chruschtschow who had to take the responsibility for his decisions on his own. 17.10. The U2 discovers russian nuclear missiles. 20.10. Ke...

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... many Cubans that did not like Castro. They flocked to the United States in order to escape communism. These people were known as Cuban exiles (Goode, Stephen 76). On March 17, 1960, the CIA and President Eisenhower got together and discussed the situation going on in Cuba. They decided to arm and train these Cuban exiles for guerrilla warfare against Cuba ... penetrated about twenty miles into Cuba until they ran into Castro's militia. The militia had heavy reinforcements which meant a quicker surrender for these exiles (Goode, Stephen 81). On Monday, April 17, the remaining planes of C...

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... piloted by Cuban exiles, attacked air bases in Cuba. This raid was designed to destroy most of Castro's air power before the land invasion was to take place. On April 17, 1961, the land invasion of Cuba took place at the Bay of Pigs. The invasion forces consisted of about 1400 Cuban exiles. Not much was achieved, through. Cuban ground forces ... , the East Germany Government, which was occupied by the Soviet Union, built the Berlin wall. "The Berlin wall was a wall dividing West Berlin and East Berlin. It was 12 feet high and d28 miles long. Guards were on watch constantly and mines were...

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... urgency, its deliberations on a treaty banning underground nuclear tests. Preliminary talks on Strategic Arms Limitations (SALT) between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in Helsinki from November 17 to December 22 1969. The Governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, after reviewing the course of their talks on the limitation of strategic armaments, agreed to concentrate ... admit defeat when they were unable to unanimously endorse a comprehensive program for disarmament. The conference on Confidence, Security Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe, open...

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... Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. As A child, she had dreamt of becoming a great biologist. She studied Herpetology (the study of reptiles) in high school and had hopes to become good enough to go on an expedition. She attended many universities where she began to pursue her degree in Herpetology. These universities included Columbia ... Life and the Air Force used her pictures. The first uniform for a woman war correspondent was designed for her, and she loved it. She returned to England and photographed the B-17 bombers known and the Flying Fortresses. Cal...

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... and when the woman I love presents me with the a child the first word it shall utter will be: Stalin." On the other hand during the period of 1934 to 1953 17 million guiltless citizens were sent to their graves (executed), deported or arrested for vague accusation such as links with Kirov's murder, political crimes and disloyal to the USSR. But still ... during the winter temperatures sometimes dropped to a fatal bone shattering of -60 degrees. Alexander Solzhenitsyn a survivor of the worst labor camp Kolyma said, " The death rate in all camps was high a zek stood very little change of ...

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... on a hot air balloon in their basement. The men drilled and soldered together gas burners, platforms and a makeshift flamethrower, while the woman stitched a sixty foot wide and seventy five foot high balloon out of curtains, bed sheets and other fabrics. The couples had just enough fuel to get in the air and barely floated over the Wall on Sept. 15, 1979 ... . Between the years of 1949 and 1961, more than 2.6 million East Germans traveled and moved to West Berlin or West Germany, while the total population of East Germany was about 17 million at the time. Because many educated and skill...

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... the Northwestern part of the continent. The population is 38,580,949 since June 2002. The capital happens to be the largest city, Bogotá. From the 16 to early 17 century Colombia was a colony of Spain. It gained it's independence in 1819. Colombian society is divided into two different social classes the higher and the lower class, with a large difference ... the seats in the legislative house and the presidents would switch between parties. To support people and to help the people when in need the economy had to be at a high point. Colombia makes most of its money through agriculture....

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... they didn't abide by the rules of their culture? "Numerous reports exist of women (in Afghanistan) having limbs amputated because they are deemed to be inappropriately dressed" (Toronto Star, January 17, 2000, pg A15). These "truths" are too hard for our society to bear and it is easier to ignore them than to deal with them. What is true today was ... from the truth? "Simon represents the gradual alienation of the artist in the 20th century, as he is forced further and further into a position of isolation until he climbs so high in his ivory tower that he can only commune with the spiri...

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... actors involved were Russia and its army, and Chechnya with its separatist militia known as the All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP). The conflict claimed 5,730 Russian soldiers, 17,400 Chechnya rebels, and about 80,000 civilians in Chechnya. The events leading up to the war start off on September 7th, 1991 when members of the NCChP stormed the ... ...

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... could quite possibly be the most prominent example of genocide and totalitarianism in history. The people were controlled very similarly to the way the people in Anthem were. An estimated 17 000 000 jews and other ethnic groups were systematically extirpated by Nazi Germany. The mottos of the two dictatorships both describe the people having no identity other than that of ... ...

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... after regaining power in 1968, would come out with a new credo: while maintaining a pro Pan-Arab stance, the real focus was on independent Iraqi patriotism "Iraq First (Baram 12-17). Out of this new beginning, there emerged Sadden Husayn. Husayn was a politician who had learned how to organize clandestine opposition activities. Consequently, he was able to outmaneuver opposition to the ... ...

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... chairing the council in June of 1954. Another situation in which the U.S. tried to impose their will on Latin America, was the invasion of at the Bay of Pigs April 17, 1961. The invasion was financed and directed by the CIA, within six months of Castro's overthrow of Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista's in January 1959. Relations between the Castro government and ... ...

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... , the Americans had all misjudged. The Bay of Pigs invasion had been drawn up by President Eisenhower, but John.F.Kennedy approved the CIA plan soon after taking control. On April 17, 1400 members of Cuban exiles came from Nicaragua. They landed in the Bay of Pigs, were discovered by local milita and were forced to open fire. The crucial tactic for ... ...

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... -lines in the unity of the European nation. At this time, the Allied powers were very concerned with preserving Germany as a state (Salvestrini, Presentation). The Potsdam Conference was held from 17 July 1945 through 2 August 1945 in Potsdam, Germany. It was here that the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union met to supplement, clarify and implement agreements reached at ... ...

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... Revolution in Russia. Under his leadership, the Bolsheviks criticized and exposed the shortcomings of the Provisional Government. A huge armed demonstration was held against the Provisional Government in Petrograd, on July 17, 1917. Prime Minister George Lvov was forced to resign. He was succeeded by Alexander Kerensky as the new Prime Minister. However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. At the ... ...

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... _Migrate/Mongo.pdf Upton, C. 2002. "Local Institutions, Land Reform and Globalisation in Mongolia". Paper Presented at 9th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Zimbabwe, 17-21 June, 2002. ...

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... was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. Shortly after this peace talks began, but collapsed in the winter of that year. On December 17, 1972 Nixon bombed Hanoi and Haiphong in the most severe aerial assault in history. Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this ... ...

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... not gain any advantages from the revolution compared to the wealthier members of the Third Estate. This directed into a massacre at the Champs de Mars, which occurred on July 16-17, 1791. The catastrophe caused by the National Guard as they fired at demonstrators wanting a republic for they felt that they had not benefited from the revolution. The event caused fury ... ...

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... allotted the largest share of investment to industry; in 1975, for example, industry (including construction) received 37.7 percent of the total investment in the socialist sector, while agriculture received only 17.7 percent. Investment in the maintenance and expansion of fixed assets like industrial plants and machinery amounted to 21.9 percent of total investments. Budapest is the hub of Hungary's transportation system ... ...

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... be liberalized. These hopes were quickly dashed in the German Democratic Republic. Buckling under reparations to the U.S.S.R., higher production quotas, and the lack of personal freedom. Workers revolted on June 17, 1953, but the soviet forces quickly put this all down. Until German Reunification in 1990, this became known as the "Day of German Unity". In 1954, the Russian Government made ... ...

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... countries struggling with the economic burden of reconstruction after the war. Marshall's plan directly liked U.S. aid to bolstering a certain "way of life- against the threat of communism. The plan provided 17 billion dollars in aid in a period of 4 years. In return for this the Europeans would increase production and reduce tariffs. The Plan was a big success as aid came in the ... ...

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