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...which he renounced his allegiance to the Party, arguing that it had become a force for oppression rather than freedom. He objected to its codes for correct thinking--codes he found unnecessarily restrictive. After leaving the Communist Party, Fast found a new school of thought with which to align himself: for the past 20 years he has practiced Zen Buddhism. He explains his attraction to Zen quite simply. Last week, looking slightly out of place but relaxed at a carefully-kept conference room at the Boston offices of his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, Fast said, "You get to a point where...
...most dramatic blow to tourism, however, came in 1975, with former President Luis Echeverria's decision to align Mexico with those countries in the U.N. that voted to equate Zionism with racism. The vote was no sooner recorded than U.S. Jews rushed out to their travel agents to cancel their reservations for Mexican vacations. The tourist business has yet to recover from that devastating period. López Portillo cannot erase his country's vote in the U.N., but he is doing his utmost to convince foreigners of all persuasions that Mexico is once again...
...would also get away from the power-bloc delineation, with us on one side, the Soviets on the other, and all the other nations forced to align themselves pro or con. I would deal much more on a bilateral basis with individual nations. I would be much more inclined to have our country re-establish firm and predictable consultative relationships with our natural allies-Western Europe, Canada, Mexico and Japan. I would move aggressively to stop the proliferation of atomic weapons. I have proposed, in definitive terms I believe, in speeches at the United Nations and subsequent events, eleven different...
...world that is short of raw materials, the most incendiary global confrontation of the future may not be East v. West but South v. North. That is, the raw-materials-producing nations clustered in the world's southern hemisphere will try to align and squeeze higher prices out of the relatively rich industrial nations of the northern hemisphere. Already the two sides are squabbling over what to do about the wild swings in prices of such basic materials as copper, rubber and cocoa...
Most of them belong to the Hellenic Students Association, a joint Harvard-MIT body whose constitution dictates that it must never align itself with a Greek political party. But the association is perhaps the most political student group in Cambridge, judging from its intense concern with the state of Greece. And with a membership of well above 100, it is probably the largest radical student organization...