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...last three years, Bruce Nelan discovered that "China watching is a misnomer. It has really been China reading until now." Barred from the country, most Western newsmen have relied heavily on the voluminous material published and broadcast in China, and on intelligence analyses of events behind the Bamboo Curtain. Though Peking has now allowed a slight parting of the curtain, understanding Ping Pong diplomacy, its genesis and potential, still demands depth reporting from the periphery of China and from other continents...
...nearby villages with all the .303 Enfield rifles and ammunition they could carry, the policemen joined forces with 100 college students who were already working for Bangla Desh. The students were teaching the rudiments of guerrilla warfare to local peasants, who were armed only with hatchets, farm tools and bamboo staves. Within two days, the police and students had organized several thousand volunteers and militiamen of the East Pakistan Rifles and laid plans for simultaneous attacks on the five army positions in Kushtia...
...Pakistan army dispatched another infantry company from Jessore to stage a counterattack on Kushtia. At Bishakali village, halfway to Kushtia, the new company fell into a booby trap set by Bangla Desh forces. Two Jeeps in the nine-vehicle army convoy plunged into a deep pit covered with bamboo and vines. Seventy-three soldiers were killed on the spot, and dozens of others were chased down and slain...
...teeming working-class districts, soldiers roam through a black wilderness of ashes and charred bamboo stumps. It is all that remains of the flimsy homes where thousands of families lived," an AP reporter in Dacca said...
Cockroach and Crucifix. Typically, a Fahlstrom work is made of units: tiny cutout images of anything from a banana to Richard Nixon's head, from a bamboo stockade to a pile of feces, drawn with tightly focused and quite deliberate clumsiness and fixed to the base by magnets. The profusion and inventiveness of these units is dazzling. To scan Firing Squad (1968), is like spinning the selector of a TV set past images that suggest disaster but can barely be read in time-cockroaches, a panther, a G.I. doll on skis, a Bobby Kennedy headline, a crucified Lyndon Johnson...