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Both China and the Soviet Union can probably extract some advantage from the armed clash on the Ussuri. For the Russians, anxious to build European Communist support for the world party conference scheduled for this May, the incident offers proof of Chinese intransigence, and may indeed further Moscow's hopes of expelling the Chinese from the world movement. For Chairman Mao, who plans to convoke the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this spring, the incident is being manipulated to prove that China is truly surrounded by foes and that national unity is now a necessity as never...
...superiors were concerned, he had proved himself on the field; they were happy if he did not defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul, to reduce him to an instrument of propaganda. It is, of course, a tactic that the Soviet Union devised for use against its own political prisoners, as dramatized with terrifying...
...stations. Chatô had plenty of money of his own. But not even that kind of tycoon can command enough millions to assemble an art collection of the scope Chatô had in mind. So Chatô did not scruple to use his press facilities to extract a little something extra. A businessman, bank or civic organization that coughed up the cash for a work he had his eye on, could count on being eulogized in his publications. Anyone who balked might find himself attacked (as was one industrialist) as "a bandit, pachyderm, hippopotamus, Berber filibuster, Barbary pirate...
...previously released paper by Colonel Pell, "Justification for Academic Credit for ROTC at Harvard," "The Role of ROTC in a Liberal Arts College," "ROTC and the US Armed Forces," "A Brief History of ROTC," "Army ROTC Enrollment at Harvard, 1968-69," a position paper by some ROTC cadets, and extract copies of the contract between Harvard and Army ROTC, the current program of instruction, and a revised curriculum concept...
FRANCE last week seemed all too normal. In keeping with his holiday habits, President Charles de Gaulle was at his country home in the quiet village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in eastern France. His Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was on the Riviera, trying to extract some warmth from the pale Mediterranean sun. Brigitte Bardot was in the Alps, along with thousands of other French women and men who had trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have...