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...Chinese concept of a "people's war" by guerrillas, he has developed the orchestrated use of guerrillas and conventional forces, and demonstrated-as at Tet in 1968-the importance of psychology to the outcome on the battlefield. In a 1969 article in the North Vietnamese army journal, Quart Dot Nhan Dan, he spelled out the strategy that he is pursuing in this offensive. "Being held in an unfavorable strategic position, the enemy can use only a small part of his troops. Though numerous, he is outnumbered; though strong, he is weak." To Giap, "the main goal of fighting must...
...Communist, it maintains a market economy that is based on competition between state-owned but individually run companies. That zany-sounding blend of socialism and free enterprise has given the 20.5 million Yugoslavs the fastest growing economy in Eastern Europe. In major cities, modern, wide-windowed apartment complexes dot the skyline, autos clog the streets and stores are stocked with television sets, radios and kitchen appliances. Lately, however, the system has developed enough problems to bring the nation to a crossroad at which its leaders must decide how much further they are willing to go toward a freer economy. Some...
...widely used symbols are as unequivocal as the hobo markings, however. Some, like the dagger, have multiple meanings. In publishing, the dagger signals a footnote; in biology, it means "obscure species" or "incorrect citation," and in medicine, it symbolizes death. To a farmer, a dot within a semicircle signifies a drinking trough, while to a meteorologist, it means rain that does not reach the earth...
...which matters little to the grieving and homeless miners of Buffalo Creek Hollow, many of whose kin and neighbors now lie beneath the markers that dot the rolling hills of West Virginia. The people of Buffalo Creek say that they have known for years that the slag pile was dangerous. And yet, in the face of a peril so imminent, they continued to live in the threatened valley because it was the only life they knew...
...Premier arrives on the dot of 2 p.m. and is greeted by Nixon, who has been waiting outside the guesthouse where he is staying-a two-story buff brick abode filled with overstuffed chairs, paintings of public works projects and calligraphy by Mao. The pair walk quickly into the first-floor conference room and sit opposite each other at a long table covered with green. As the photographers jostle each other, clicking away, Chou laughs and says: "You must take more pictures of your President." Nixon apparently doesn't get the subtle humor or maybe he does. "Pictures...