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...show was on. The Michael weighed anchor, feigned a southward course toward Manila, then swung north up the Chinese coast. At one point, a typhoon threatened to engulf the frail expedition, but fortunately, the storm veered out to sea. Entering the harbor at Swatow, the crew had another bad moment when a Chinese gunboat approached, only to pass by harmlessly. The unloading process went smoothly as villagers snipped packets of Bibles from the submerged barge with rope cutters supplied by the smugglers, then carried them to waiting bikes, buses and trucks (Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire...
...past two years, the U.S. Army and the West German government have cooperated in a campaign against a tide of hard-drug use that has threatened to engulf both German youth and U.S. military personnel. In 1980 West German police seized a record 263 kilograms of heroin in raids across the country. Last year a sweep of one 15,000-strong U.S. military installation near Frankfurt resulted in the capture of $4 million worth of mostly marijuana and hashish and arrest of 146 U.S. soldiers. Another operation in northwest Germany netted 44 drug offenders, 18 of them U.S. soldiers. Military...
...audited the cruel costs of apartheid. Though he is white, Fugard does not confine himself to the barbarities visited by state policy upon the blacks and the mixed bloods who are labeled "coloreds." He indicts the impoverishment of spirit and the warping distortion of moral energy that engulf whites as well as blacks...
...avalanche of mismanagement still follows on Carter's heels and could engulf us any moment. But his eight-day display of determination and adroit maneuver has added a lustrous footnote to the pages of his thin volume of leadership success. Nothing more, or less...
...prostitution began as a liberation from matrimony. In Greece and China the great courtesans offered little sex but plenty of intelligent conversation, music, dancing and banquets. In lustful Europe matters and manners were a bit different. Thomas Aquinas admitted the value of prostitutes: without them, he said, homosexuality would engulf society. By the 19th century, wives came to be viewed as creatures far too delicate for the hurly-burly of the bedroom, and their husbands often spent their "brutish passions" elsewhere. In 1866 one bishop complained that there were as many whores as Methodists in New York City...