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...frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
...that "this corruptible must put on incorruption." Then it will be manifest that "death is swallowed up in victory." That which is sown in dishonor and weakness will rise again in glory and power. The Christian hope does not lead us away from this life. It is the conquest of death, not a flight into the Beyond...
...attempt to demonstrate that today's news can best be understood in the perspective of history. With rare exception, its lavishly illustrated contents take the long view. An article on Red China, for example, traces the Communist conquest all the way back to Sun Yat-sen - a non-Communist revolutionary who toppled the 268-year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon...
...India worry much about Chinese designs on Indian territory. Said Nehru: "A border that had been dead has now become a live border." India tried to buy Red China off by championing its admission to the United Nations, opposed all U.N. attempts to condemn the Chinese for their conquest of Tibet. The feeble Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater interest. "Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color...
...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A cool, clear fictional account of the Mayan civilization's collapse before the Spanish conquest...