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More Moslems (68 million) live in the Republic of Indonesia than in any other nation. They are mostly docile peasants, content to harvest their rubber, rice, sugar, tea and coffee, but on one subject the Indonesians are as explosive as their island volcanoes: religion. Islam provided both the force and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Unknown War | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Professor in Power. Here was no half-literate army bullyboy. Paz was one nationalist fanatic who talked cold business like a businessman, a former economics professor who had balanced a budget and knew the cost of sweeping reform. But with his economist's eyes wide open, Dictator Paz took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Republic up in the Air | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

A spotlight on the problems created by poverty, unemployment, disease, crime, and a fanatic white-supremacist government is not all that Drum gives the 65,000 readers who buy it every month. Its some 40 illustrated pages serve up a blend of Negro and colored (i.e., mixed blood) life, sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: South African Drumbeats | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Then he set out on a round of social calls. He dropped in for a cup of tea with evil old Mullah Kashani, spiritual chief of the fanatic nationalists, co-conspirator with Communists and the man Premier Mossadegh most fears. Kashani embraced the assassin, caressing his beard, and said: "You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Time of the Assassin | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

In short, says Dr. Carmichael, higher learning has fallen for "the cult of objectivity, [which] has resulted in a generation of irresponsible intellectuals, of men without convictions. As a warning, Germany is cited. There scientific learning reached its peak . . . Yet it was also there that the leadership . . . was unable to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Know the Truth | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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