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...pursued by two dogs. When she tells him good-bye after a visit to his apartment, she stands before a desk decorated with two harmless looking china dogs. But the next day at a banquet during which Gertrud discovers that Erland has heartlessly boasted of his latest conquest, she mentions the dream again to a friend as they talk in front of a tapestry depicting beauty besieged by the hounds (photo...
...differences with the Soviets in South Asia at the beginning of the war, although not at the end, when both sides used restraint. The Soviets deserve credit for restraint after East Pakistan went down, to get the ceasefire; that stopped what would inevitably have been the conquest of West Pakistan as well. But anywhere the Soviet Union and the U.S. find themselves disagreeing potentially jeopardizes the possibility of their going forward in other areas. Whereas any area where we agree helps. I think what really led both sides to the determination to go forward with the summit was Berlin. Berlin...
...MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO THAT THE INDIA CONQUEST OF WEST PAKISTAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN "INEVITABLE" BUT FOR U.S. AND SOVIET RESTRAINING MEASURES. WAS THERE EVIDENCE THAT THE INDIANS PLANNED TO MOVE ON WEST PAKISTAN...
Throughout the book Freire contracts his methods and his theory with those of the oppressors. His use of cooperation vs. their use of conquest, the oppressor's need for unity vs. the oppressor's need for divisiveness, organization vs. manipulation, and cultural synthesis vs. cultural invasion. He sees oppressors as being anything but stupid and stresses the necessity for knowing their methods...
...armies under Hindu and, later, Sikh leadership had begun to pull it apart. The British finished the job, and as they began to annex great swatches of the old Mogul Empire, England's soldiers and administrators unwittingly opened the way for a dramatic Hindu renaissance. The first British conquest was the vast state of Bengal, or what is now India's West Bengal state and East Pakistan. As shrewd and energetic traders, Bengal's Hindus had close ties with the British, and they naturally found positions in the new civil service. As British rule spread...