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...followers vowed to collect 50 million acres of land from India's landlords by the simple process of "looting with love." Explained a disciple: "If in a village we find two landlords who refuse, we say we will not force you. Some day the light will dawn in your hearts. Until then, we would lay down our lives to protect your ownership...
...town opposite Macao's inner harbor, were summarily herded last July into 50 bamboo-and-nipa barracks, put to work building roads and a causeway to connect their island to the Red mainland. The Lappa commune's day starts at 5 a.m. when shrill whistles split the dawn. From 5 until 8, the men and women do calisthenics and military drill (with wooden rifles). After a 15-minute break for breakfast, the commune marches off in formation to work on the causeway. With the exception of two other 15-minute breaks for meals, work continues until midnight, under...
...after dawn one day last week, residents of Macao's waterfront were wakened by an uproar coming from the commune. Silhouetted against the southern sky, Communist troops were moving on the double across the causeway. Macao people reported hearing the bark of rifles, the chatter of machine guns, followed by screams and a deadly silence...
...egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...
...factions, friend and foe, are suffused by Pasternak with a profound pity, and their death is mourned. In one of the more fascinating passages, he introduces a village witch in Siberia who, even in the dawn of scientific socialism, clings to her visions. She prophesies: "Take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman...