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...headed by Park. Among other things, the defendant stood charged with "obstructing the military takeover." Translation: Chang had only belatedly agreed to front for the rest of the military plotters, and then solely upon threat to his life. Further, after the coup, he had failed to lock-step with bamboo-tough little Park. Since the junta's takeover, some 40,000 people have been arrested, and though most have been released, the police remain capricious. Recently, when a Korean professor invited some of his students out for dinner at a restaurant, cops arrested him. The charge: illegal assembly...
...popping up like granite mushrooms in thousands of U.S. gardens, patios and motel parking areas. The average small lantern, standing three feet high, costs only about $100, including crating and handling. So great is the demand that Japanese stonemasons, a traditionally unhurried lot and given to meditative puffs on bamboo pipes between mallet whacks, have a tremendous backlog of orders piling up. Japan is exporting an average of 2,000 lanterns a month, most of them to the U.S. Many U.S. tourists buy them at Ishikatsu, Tokyo's largest masonry shop, and have them shipped home...
...types of Communists came to listen: comrades from small Russian villages, café-sophisticated Parisians, bamboo-tough agitators from Asia. Eager crowds awaited such stalwarts as Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh and Red China's Chou Enlai, Astronaut Gherman Titov, Lieut. Colonel Mikhail Voronov (billed as "the man who shot down the U-2") was there, and so, imprisoned in a vast new bust that stared across Sverdlov Square, was the old Russian-hater who started it all, Karl Marx...
...there, and they tried to keep it a secret. It's inhuman." By "they" he meant Communist authorities of Red China, who had a cholera epidemic for months in Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep the tiny microbe of cholera, Vibrio comma, from slipping through with refugees escaping to Hong Kong or to the nearby Portuguese islet colony of Macao...
...white superiority, while Mukasa, despite his Oxford degree, is just another black in the opinion of white settlers and primitive tribesmen. Author Stacey sends the "brothers" off on a long expedition to soaring, snow-crested Ruwenzori, the fabled Mountains of the Moon. As they fight their way through bamboo forests and up mist-shrouded crags, the clash of culture, personality and race is heightened...