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...final lessons in foreign relations came in Canberra, after a brief rest stop in Bali. In Australia, Agnew encountered a growing national awareness, accompanied by an unwillingness to continue regarding the U.S. as an ideal ally. There is still a strong feeling of friendship, but the recent massacre at My Lai has reinforced local antiwar activists who want withdrawal of the 8,000 Aussie troops now stationed in Viet Nam. As one radio commentator put it: "We are still sacrificing 20-year-olds as an insurance premium to the American alliance...
Then Air Force Two was off again, this time bound for Bali. There, the Vice President will rest before his final touchdown this week in Australia and New Zealand...
...Vice President will then make stops in Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore, finally coming to rest for a few days at a plush beach hotel in Bali. Revived by dips in the Indian Ocean, a set or two of tennis and perhaps a few rounds of golf-Agnew packed his clubs, rackets and bathing trunks-the Vice President will fly the final leg of his journey, stopping in Australia and New Zealand and returning to Washington in mid-January...
...failed to remind herself that "we exult in what we master and discover." The entries from January, 1942, relate the chore of handsetting and printing one's own books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background of convulsion in the world. After a terse notation of atrocities ("Bali invaded. Java invaded. Paris bombarded by the English, India rebelling against the English") Nin wrote: "And what can one do but preserve some semblance of human life, to seek the not-savage, not-barbaric forms of life...
dance. A guy started passing a bottle of Bali Hai wine as we spun around. More and more people joined us: we danced faster and faster. It seemed as if everybody was dancing with us-there were at least five circles swirling around. Laughing and exhausted, we finally collapsed in a heap...