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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican parties." Diddley-Do. The distance between the extremes of the Republican Party is no greater than it is in the Democratic Party. But Democrats have always been able to reconcile their differences in the name of the party-partly because those Democrats with some of the most backward principles have been the very ones who have continually won at the polls and provided the party with a power base for 100 years. Why Republicans don't have this similar sense of party feeling has been debated for the better part of a century. One recent reason is that...
Will They Use It? In view of all this, why aren't China's neighbors more worried? One experienced U.S. observer in Hong Kong says: "They aren't scaring worth a damn." They are nevertheless impressed that economically backward China accomplished the feat of building the bomb. Throughout Asia and Africa, among nations that vociferously disapproved of U.S. atomic tests, there is a certain racial satisfaction that another white man's monopoly has been broken. There is some talk that India and Japan might now try to build bombs of their...
...Economy. Economically, Red China is still suffering from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward," a shortlived 1958-61 attempt at crash industrialization and collectivization that resulted in a major drop backward. The country is also still feeling the effects of the 1960 pullout of Russian technicians, who not only took their blueprints with them but also, in a final fraternal gesture, sabotaged the machinery they left behind. In North China people in rags still live in the same caves around Yenan in which Mao and his men holed up for years after the Long March. All kinds of consumer goods...
...this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down to 208 by fight time"), he was running four miles a day (one of them backward), boxing as many as nine rounds in an afternoon, studying movies of Listen in action, hitting the hay precisely at 9 each night...
...that led to his downfall. Since the days of the ancient Arab slave traders, the Sudan has been split into two inherently hostile ethnic and religious groups: the sophisticated, dominant Arabs of the Moslem north, 9,000,000 strong; and, south of the 12th parallel, some 4,000,000 backward Negro tribesmen without a political voice. Abboud met frequent black incursions with stern, often savage military reprisals that only fed the flames...