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However, their position as a political-economic buffer group between the British and the Africans engendered animosity from both sides. Africans especially resented Asians for holding the semi-skilled jobs denied them and for growing wealthy by selling to Africans. Moreover, the Africans had little opportunity to meet and understand the Asians, who cloistered in tight communities and shunned intermarriage. Asian contacts with Africans were either on a master-servant or trader-buyer relationship...
Separate but Unequal. Resentment at the university's land-buying policies spilled over into the gymnasium dispute. Columbia got the city's permission to put up a $9,500,000 building in Morningside Park, long a bottle-strewn, crime-ridden buffer between the campus and Harlem. The university plans to devote the ground floor to a free community gymnasium and swimming pool, use upper floors of the building for its own athletic programs. Although this would be the only such public facility in the neighborhood, well-organized protesters called the project "a land grab" and "a desecration...
Within months after V-E day, Stalin's "dream" of acquiring a buffer zone along Russia's western border had come true. Kennan dismisses as absurd the notion that Stalin's expansionist appetite was fed by fears of the U.S. or anger at not being offered enormous sums of American aid. He recalls what a Soviet friend told him in 1944: "This is something you should bear in mind about the Russian. The better things go for him, the more arrogant he is. When we are successful, keep...
...North. In their pre-monsoon onslaught, U.S. flyers hammered relentlessly at North Viet Nam's lines of communication, over which its war supplies are funneled from China and the port of Haiphong to the south. Returning to the normally proscribed 20-mile-wide buffer zone along the Chinese border, U.S. airmen scored direct hits on the previously damaged Lang Son bridge, the major rail link between Hanoi and China. Venturing within one minute's flying time of the Chinese border, U.S. raiders knocked out three previously untouched highway bridges over which the North Vietnamese had been trucking supplies...