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This prediction is bolstered by an increasing Chinese naval interest in Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere last month laid the foundation stone for a Chinese-built naval base at Dar es Salaam. The Indian Ocean waters off Tanzania are a natural splashdown area for ICBMs test-fired out of western China and over India, and Peking might just be looking to the day when it is ready to monitor a missile test...
...meeting with Mansfield was brief. In the cab on the way back, Neustadt said, "H'es a man who gave the soundest advice of any senior member of government in 1964 and 65. But no one listened...
...their feet and raised their voices in a rhythmic chant: "One man, one wife, is the proper way of life." Petitions poured in to the government, including one that warned in Swahili: "To admit a second wife is to bring poison into the home." A letter to a Dar es Salaam newspaper cautioned simply: "Polygamy will give men big heads...
...students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that the Paris city council has just churlishly refused to rename the street in Lenin...
...German literary artist from politics. By custom, Germans expect a soulful aloofness from intellectuals. Art is enduring, a thing apart, not to be contaminated by the daily, dirty round of politics. Naturally, the last thing that Germans expect of a writer is that he will paint a rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De" (for Social Democratic Party) on the side of a secondhand Volkswagen bus and vulgarly, vulgarly bounce thousands of miles through West Germany campaigning for Willy Brandt. Last summer Grass did just that...