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...call girls had a variety of defenses: since none was effective, they switched from one to another and clung pathetically to each in turn: 1) projection (insisting that all women would be promiscuous if they dared); 2) denial ("It's not sex"); 3) reaction formation (taking refuge in opposites, i.e., if homosexual, they tried to act heterosexual; if dependent and passive, they tried to act independent and aggressive); 4) self-abasement, amounting to masochism and self-destructiveness...
Among the retreating colonial powers, the French have clung longest to the savage techniques of imperialism's unhappy past. In 1945, when Algerians killed some 100 French in a local uprising in the Constantine area, the French retaliated by bombing and strafing towns, killed some 20,000 Algerians before calling a halt; in 1946 French warships and artillery bombarded Haiphong, killing some 10,000 Vietnamese; in 1947 the French wiped out entire villages in putting down a revolt in Madagascar, killing some 40,000 men, women and children...
...border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake out the old Stalinists and strengthen his leadership, has bogged down into a sort of cataloguing census. The blighting bureaucrats Gomulka hoped to get rid of have clung like leeches to their party membership while the workers who were supposed to be the base of the new party have streamed out. Disenchanted intellectuals by the dozen have torn up their party cards. Of the 14,000 students at the Warsaw Polytechnic, a rallying point of the October rising, only...
Last week thousands of Dutchmen concluded there would be no return for them. For weeks many had clung to their homes and their businesses, hoping that the government would impose moderation on the rampaging nationalists. Instead, the government had only made the seizures orderly, making clear that there was no hope of a reversal. On New Year's Day the new-standardized team of military men, civilian supervisors and union representatives took over the management of Bank Indonesia, and the bank's 24 senior Dutch officials were summarily dismissed. With that, many another Dutchman started packing...
...nearly a year the fires of resentment against Indonesia's highhanded President Sukarno have smoldered quietly. Deserted by more and more of his once faithful political and military followers, Sukarno has clung adamantly to his plans for bringing "guided democracy" to Indonesia. Last week, with his supporters limited to a few old hangers-on and Indonesia's increasingly powerful Communist Party, the embers of resentment burst into flame...