Who’s Smiling? The Economist April 18-24, 1992 Huh?!? [During an early morning visit to the Jefferson Memorial, President Bush comments about an inscription that it is an “eloquent plea for term limits.”] REPORTER: You’re misinterpreting Jefferson. BUSH: No I’m not. REPORTER: You ought to send this statement to Peru. BUSH: Perot? REPORTER: Peru. BUSH: Oh, sorry. I heard you. REPORTER: Perot, right. Is he on your mind? BUSH: No, I think he’s on yours. BUSH: This is a lovely memorial. The New York Times April 9, 1992 Was Fujimori Eavesdropping? “I would rather be totalitarian with 80% popular support than democratic with 20%.” Argentine President Menem November 7, 1991 cited in Nueva Sociedad January-February 1992 Dirty Thoughts Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [less developed countries]? I can think of three reasons: 1) … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. 2) I’ve always thought that underpopu- lated countries in Africa are vastly un- der-polluted compared with Los Ange- les or Mexico City… 3) The concern over an agent that causes a one-per-million change in the odds of prostate cancer is obviously going to be higher in a country where people [live long enough to] get prostate cancer than in a country where mortality is 200 per 1,000 under age five. World Bank Internal Memo by Chief Economist Lawrence Summers December 1991 Fashion Tips Santo Domingo is the only Caribbean city where I know I’ll need at least three party dresses and my lizard spike heels. Vogue Magazine January 1992 After a Few Tequilas “With the notable exception of Mexi- co,” Richard Feinberg, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a forum for hemispheric leaders, said in an inter- view, “parliamentary institutions and political parties are lacking in legiti- macy in Latin America.” The New York Times April 7, 1992 Nuptial Harmony President Fujimori said his wife, Susana Higuchi, fully supported his decision to dissolve Congress and reor- ganize the judiciary. “We have talked about it in the living room, in my office and in the bedroom, and in all three places, she has shown herself to be in agreement,” he said. Resumen Semanal (Lima) April 15-23, 1992 War of the Beachballs Now, ironically, Jamaica sees a new threat from Communist Cuba.”I’d real- ly be concerned if Cuba were to become democratic and really open up its economy tomorrow,” muses Morin Sey- mour, a Jamaican entrepreneur who is restoring Kingston’s harbor area. “They have better beaches than we do.” The Wall Street Journal May 14, 1992 CORRECTION The Afro-Brazilian deity depicted on the cover of our last issue (Vol. XXV, No. 4) was misidentified. It was Shango, not Ogun.
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