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Zuni
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Sat Aug-30-03 06:19 PM
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had the 2nd or third highest literacy rate in Latin America when Castro took Havana on Jan 1 1959.
Chile had a high literacy rate under Pinochet.
Iraq, under the Baath Party had universal education and the highest literacy rate in the Arab world. Kuwait, under the monacrchs has universal health care and one of the best health care systems in the world--their system is far better than Canada or the NHS in the UK.
Nazi Germany had very high standards regarding universal education for ethnic Germans.
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