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India comprises many communities with differing religions and life-styles and more than 20 major languages and some 250 dialects. If the Sikhs were granted autonomy, then why not the Assamese, the Tamils and all the others, until India would be reduced to a cluster of tiny independent countries? How naive to imagine that the Soviets and Chinese would respect India's borders. It is a case of united we stand, divided we fall. American as well as Indian interests lie in a unified, strong, democratic India...
When the Fifty-Niners arrived, there were only seven or eight people on the west side of the Susitna. Today the Siks figure there are about 1,500, stretched over a wide area, and there is a town, or rather a cluster of highway businesses, a post office, a police station, a school and four churches, known as Trapper Creek. "We thought of calling it Bradleyville," says Carol. "We thought of Little Michigan. But that idea was dropped right away. After all, this is Alaska, not Michigan. But most of us lived on Trapper Creek, so that...
...pasturelands, slaughterhouses, fruit plantations, market gardens and ports. The nucleus of the "honored association," as the Mafia's members euphemistically referred to their organization, was the family, whose members were linked by blood or marriage. A group of families would be allied in a cosca (artichoke), a cluster of separate leaves forming a single unit...
...dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists a year come to yell, some of them at the same time: their goal is to hear the echo of their voices rebound...
Iraqi military experts explain that they want the cluster bombs to defend themselves against the kind of human-wave assaults that Iran has tried in the past. They could also do considerable damage to the pipelines and loading equipment at Kharg Island and other Iranian oil terminals. The Chilean cluster bombs represent only a fraction of Iraq's huge arsenal, which consists mostly of weapons bought from the Soviet Union and France. But for Chile's budding arms industry the deal offers visibility, and perhaps field testing, in one of the bloodiest wars now under...