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...tons to 130 million tons. And this, according to Peking, is only prelude. Hailing 1958 as the year of "the great leap forward," the Chinese Reds took as their primary slogan: "Overtake Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million tons of steel-double last year's figure. More breath-taking yet was their claim that production of edible grains would soar to 350 million tons, 90% over last year...
...belief and baffle logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce an all-Chinese jet; their vaunted Manchurian "Detroit" still builds only a few thousand trucks...
...radio had come on the air, blaring martial music. Then at dawn the announcer read a communique signed by Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, chief of staff of the 10,000-man Sudanese army. He was taking over the 1,000,000 square miles of the Sudan, said Abboud, to end governmental corruption and chaos and to restore peace and order. Declaring martial law, Abboud shut down all newspapers, banned all political parties and public assemblies or demonstrations. Using almost the identical words of General Ne Win and General Ayub Khan when they seized power in Burma and Pakistan, General Abboud...
Cuba's slow-motion rebellion begins its third year next week, a study in inertia but nonetheless a tense and tragic struggle that must end in a crashing showdown...
...Chileans prize as a symbol of the system of representative democracy, a fanatic crowd of card-carrying Communists last week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds are allowed to gather in the Chilean sanctuary of Democracy...