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...million. The man who raised the issue was Tory Enoch Powell, Harold Macmillan's Minister of Health. In 1968 Powell prophesied that rivers of blood would flow in Britain if colored immigration was allowed to continue. More recently, he demanded citizenship legislation to differentiate between those who "belong" in Britain and those who do not, as well as a ban on the entry of dependents of immigrants already landed and a bribe for those nonwhites who agree to leave Britain...
...night I spent meeting the people on the floor living with me. They put the boys on the fourth floor where they occupy one end of a corridor. In a basic instinct for survival we moved some of our furniture out into the halls and declared that the halls belong to the people. The girls who came to visit and say "welcome" retired by midnight and the rest of the night I spent meeting the boys...
...Christians and Jews may belong more to mycology than theology. See RELIGION, "Jesus as Mushroom...
...Israeli incursions and the fleeing farmers created a new crisis for Premier Rashid Karami's government in Beirut. Most of the refugees belong to the Moslem Shia sect, who hold the menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut...
Saigon's military establishment is, to be sure, bigger and better organized than ever before. Astonishingly, Saigon did not get around to general mobilization until mid-1968; since then, its forces have grown from 775,000 to 950,000 men. Of the total, 484,000 belong to the Regional Forces and Popular Forces, the keystones of the pacification effort. The 387,000 troops of ARVN's twelve regular divisions, plus 31,000 navy, 35,000 air force and 13,000 marine personnel, account for the rest...