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Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea were easy to set free: they were almost all black. The first big bastion of white strength to meet the full onslaught of Africa's wind of change was Britain's sprawling Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a seven-year-old amalgam that the more populous blacks disliked from the start...
More than 70 per cent of Princeton students voted for Nixon and Lodge in a Princetonian poll, causing one anguished alumnus to visualize Princeton as a bastion of reaction in a world where "the radicalism of undergraduates is taken for granted." Meanwhile, an increasingly less subtle trend drew growls of distress from at least one senior, who wrote that "By constantly looking over her shoulder at Harvard and Yale, Princeton not only admits that she is a follower, but divests herself of the last vestiges of uniqueness." And indeed, a Harvard student suddenly shifted to Princeton would find himself very...
This week the Chinese skeleton is rattling for all it is worth. A Taipei publisher named Lei Chen made the mistake last summer of starting an opposition party--something that is not done in America's rather tarnished bastion of democracy in the Far East. On September 4, Chang's men arrested Lei on charges of sedition, much to the dismay of Nationalist intellectuals at home and overseas. Now the trial, originally scheduled for October 15, is being pushed through this week, and no one has any serious doubts as to its outcome...
Northern Rhodesia, where blacks outnumber whites 31 to 1, has long been a bastion of rampant white supremacy among Britain's African territories. For years African shoppers were not even allowed in stores, had to be served through hatchways in the wall. But encouraged by Britain's Colonial Office, the protectorate last month promulgated a new law forbidding racial discrimination in hotel dining rooms, restaurants, cafés and movie houses...
...dusty village lanes. Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians. Encouraged by the mercurial remarks of Premier Patrice Lumumba as he wended his way home from the U.S., the Congo government became more and more insistent on the departure of Belgian troops from their bastion in Katanga...