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DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

Rebellious, exuberant youth collide with newly independent Africa. Racial hatred lights the fuse that propels Jake Ries and Karl Appel to the African killing fields, where they flee fanatics who massacre their way to power. DRINKING FROM THE STREAM is the story of Jake and Karl's erratic, fateful course hitchhiking across Ethiopia and East...

PARAGUAY, THE PERSONALIST LEGACY

FOREWORD

Until almost the end of the 1980s, Paraguay and General Alfredo Stroessner were perceived as virtually synonymous in the minds of a whole generation. Indeed, this dictator often eclipsed the small, inland South American country over which he ruled for more than a third of a century. Yet, in the long run, the most important events in...

PARAGUAY

A Country Study

CHAPTER 1. HISTORICAL SETTING Richard S. Sacks