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Naturally, McNeill soon turns from war to peacetime plagues. The most famous, bubonic plague, was carried westward from China and Manchuria by the marauding Mongol hordes, and decimated Asia before being brought by ship to Europe. There, it hit the unprepared Continent like evidence of God's displeasure; between...
The new era began in 1964 with the abrupt end of democracy in Brazil, the continent's largest nation. Around 1968 the Brazilian military regime grew nasty: priests were jailed and dissidents were tortured to death. Says one bishop: "The effect on the church leadership was swift and strong...
The characters of Zelda's later stories remain gently loosened from reality. Gay, "The Original Follies Girl," masquerading in her jewelry, travels from continent to continent, shocking her admirers and searching for "the recherche." Sadly, she dies,
The diplomatic act that some journalists in Africa call "the Traveling Ted and Bill Show" hopscotched around the continent last week-from Maputo to Dar es Salaam, Lusaka to Pretoria, Salisbury to Pretoria again, and on to London. Through it all, Britain's Minister of State for Africa Edward...
But there is a great deal of evidence that Kissinger is not really interested in majority rule, or in ending violence. In fact, he openly stated his main concern before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last May, just before the first of his meetings with Vorster: "We have a stake...