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...Bamboo flutes tweedled, brass gongs thrummed, and Montagnard maidens twisted ceremonial copper bracelets round the wrists of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Premier Tran Van Huong and other South Vietnamese dignitaries. Stoically, the visitors sipped from the brimming urns of mnam kpie, a sour-tasting homemade rice wine. Then they moved on to lunch in the comfortable former summer residence of exiled Emperor Bao Dai, in the highland provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot. The Saigon dignitaries, together with a host of American officials, were joining in ceremonies marking what they hoped would be the end of a tribal rebellion...
...police were generally restrained, but occasionally used tear gas and let fly with their lathis, or steel-tipped bamboo poles. In Rawalpindi, 20,000 students marched for seven hours, shouting "Death to Ayub!" and "Bhutto zin-dabad!" (Long live Bhutto.) It was the largest protest in the capital since Ayub came to power ten years ago. The crowd was peaceful at first, but then attacked two pro-government newspaper offices...
...essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed to fit China into the categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
Personal Record. In their voluntary exile, the reclusive wen-jen introduced a style that was to last for centuries. Abandoning the sweetly colored realism of the late Sung court painters, they developed a powerful expressionism that glorified a painter's unique "handwriting." Landscapes and bamboo stalks were popular because such subjects put a premium on brushwork. Colors and perspective were largely abandoned, human figures casually sketched...
...spot checking of cars for smuggled ammunition create massive traffic tie-ups; and on walls throughout the city, government posters depict Ojukwu's demonic countenance being crushed by the boot of a soldier. Otherwise, life in Lagos maintains its prewar rhythms. On Saturday evenings, the Gondola and Cabin Bamboo dance halls still swing, and weekend picnickers jam the gleaming bay-front beaches, splashing in the surf and munching smoked stockfish...