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...abolition of serfdom: later to the establishment of a parliament, and eventually to the setting up of the first scheme of industrial insurance in the world." Andreski also maintains, though less persuasively, that universal suffrage was one of the products of the first World War. NATIONALISM. Conquest, says Andreski, not only demolishes states but also builds them. All of today's large states were traced by war-and are maintained by military strength. No really independent state has ever long survived without military power and a willingness to use it. CULTURE AND THE ARTS. "At all times," says Andreski...
Exhibits are as disparate as the architecture. Emphasizing its lunar conquest, the U.S. will display genuine moon rocks, space suits and a model of the Apollo 11 lunar module. Russia, observing the centennial of Lenin's birth, will stress Soviet culture, history and science. Pursuing techniques pioneered in Montreal three years ago, the fair features several dazzling, multiscreen light shows, and psychedelic sound shows as well. The Japan steel-and-iron-industries building has 1,300 loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling and walls to stun visitors with a "Song of Steel...
...related goods. the manager of G. E.'s Schenectady, N. Y. plant brought a Defense Department representative to the picket lines to talk to the workers. Hearing that the strike was directly handicapping the war effort, that it was aiding and abetting Russia's conspiracy for world conquest, the workers chanted, "Fuck...
...Front (FROLINAT) claims credit for the current insurrection. French-educated François Tombalbaye, the only President this ten-year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their servants. The Arab herdsmen, who never adapted to French rule, are trying to overthrow their former slaves, who managed to adapt very well...
...During the Nazi reign, humanity could pretend to know nothing about the atrocities. During the Nigeria-Biafran conflict everybody knew it was plain genocide -which will probably be the final Biafran solution, now that the conquest of Biafra is accomplished...