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...corporate investment and western influence grow rapidly, the white Afrikaaners who run South Africa seem only to be tightening the color restrictions which govern all facets of South African life, and increasing their control over the buffer of white-ruled governments to the North...
LIKE OTHER imperial powers, Tsarist Russia was motivated by several factors as it expanded. Originally landlocked, Russia sought year-round ports with open access to trade routes. Mindful of the dangers of massive invasion after the Napoleonic conquest of Moscow, the Russians sought buffer states to protect their frontiers. They looked for foreign markets and economic spheres of interest in central Asia and Manchuria. Generally, their imperialism developed on the lines established by the other imperial powers...
...world already strongly dominated by imperial powers, the Soviets have reached out to make a new partition. They have abandoned their role as the champions of anti-imperialism in their rush for territory, hegemony, unequal trade agreements and strategic defense. Eastern Europe provides not only a wall of buffer states against the armies of Europe (one of which devastated Russia in 1940), but a trading area the Soviets can milk for specialized products and skills. The Soviets have steadfastly refused to negotiate a permanent border with the People's Republic, and have fought several minor border wars in an effort...
WHEN IT'S 92 in the shade it's a dangerous time. Hot, sweltering, no relief until nightfall. Most of life's social niceties and buffer zones have boiled off and what is left is raw will. Thomas McGuane's latest book contains two raw wills, lying as crisp and on edge as dry leaves, ready to burst into flames the moment pressure is magnified. But these particular wills belong to two people who thoroughly know their principles and their capacity for deliberate action. When the collision comes they summon up with heroic energy the grace to die well...
...SINAI PENINSULA. There is no real reason why this 23,440-sq. mi. expanse of desert should be a major issue of dispute. Israel says it makes no claim on the land itself, except as a military buffer. One plausible solution would be to return sovereignty to Egypt, but at the same time to demilitarize the Egyptian side of the border between the Sinai and Israel. This border could be perhaps 20 to 30 miles deep, enough territory to keep each side out of artillery or short-range rocket attack from the other...