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...decade since then, the Afro-Asian world has expanded from 29 to 65 nations, each with its own, pressing internal problems. The grand dream of 1955 has fragmented into even more intense subdreams-expressed by smaller groupings such as the Arab League, the Organization of African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality of national interests: Zambia and Malawi, dependent as they are on good relations with neighboring, white-run Rhodesia, refuse to join the African militants who demand the bloody overthrow of Ian Smith...
...while the temperature hovered near 90°, Athenians lounged at the beaches, sipped iced ouzo in cafes, and only the straw-hatted tourists defied the heat, toiling up to the Acropolis to commune with history. By night, the history was happening down below...
Four months ago, a significant new element entered African politics. Leaders of the moderate French-speaking nations, meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, formed the 14-member Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache-the largest single bloc of nations in Africa. Built around the thriving Western-oriented economy of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's traditional cultural leadership of French Africa, the OCAM represents 36 million Africans spread over one-fifth of the continent. One of its purposes: to offset the radical foreign policies of such hotheads as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, create a new moderate center...
...only thing most Americans know about Ping-Pong is that it is played with wooden paddles and a light little ball that is forever getting lost under the TV set. In Red China, where there are 3,000,000 registered players, it is the national sport. Every commune, factory and office has its Ping-Pong league: in one Shanghai plant alone, there are 140 teams. So it was no surprise when last week's world table-tennis championships got under way in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, that the Red Chinese were head and shoulders above the players from 46 other nations...
...work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...