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Intermarriage Urged. Over the past year, the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have quietly replaced many Asians with blacks in governmental jobs. Asian railway employees have been ousted in "Africanization" drives, have gone on to work in Zambia, where white railroaders have been fired for racial reasons. In Kenya...
Jamaica without Sir Alexander Bustamante? It is like Ethiopia without Haile Selassie, Yugoslavia without Tito. A white-maned half-caste who seemed a kind of quixotic king to the island's poor back-country blacks, Bustamante organized the widespread riots that won the Caribbean country a large measure of...
I think they will go to pieces. Because I don't think they can control any more a country such as Brazil, with about 80 million people. It's too big to be controlled by a clique, by caste, or any way by a dominant group without any commitment towards...
In Brazil the armed forces do not compose a caste. They are basically recruited--I mean the officers' bodies--are basically recruited from among the lower or a middle class. People who have a certain number of sons and cannot afford to pay their studies send one or a few...
"Every time I walk out the door," David Douglas Duncan once said, "something blows up." An exaggeration perhaps, but typical and probably pardonable. There have been precious few major explosions in the world during the last 30 years at which earnest, hardworking Dave Duncan has not been present. Hung up...