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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pragmatists have gone to work. The Washington Post editorialized this week that the raids were probably necessary for Ian Smith to persuade his constituency that he would not bargain from a position of weakness. The Post lauded the pragmatists currently in control of the U.S. foreign policy establishment who are using "the carrot, rather than the stick" in relations with South Africa. Going on to proclaim that such friendly relations are the best hope for a peaceful solution in southern Africa -- in Rhodesia pushing Smith's government to the negotiating table with leaders of the Popular Front guerrillas, in Namibia...
Whatever Shevchenko's current value to the U.S., the CIA must continue protecting him, if only to keep from discouraging other would-be defectors. The first step is for the CIA once again to cloak him in anonymity. Shevchenko thus has gone back into hiding to await his new identity and ponder the fact that even in the U.S. you have got to be careful about whom you tryst...
Shanghai, the world's largest metropolitan area (pop. 10.8 million), is China's leading trading center and second biggest industrial city. Gone are the 60,000 foreigners who ran the city as a fiefdom for a century. Gone too are the singsong girls and the 30,000 prostitutes who once plied the streets, and the opium dens and the gambling halls. The people are louder and livelier and more independent than the prim Pekingese. Shanghai has the vibrancy and hustle of New York. It boasts 140 round-the-clock (jih-ye) shops and eating places. Shanghai winks...
...Bund, the magnificent old waterfront promenade, is decaying, but is as imposing as ever in the pre-smog morning light. The ornate colonialist skyscrapers now house party and government offices. Gone from hi front of the old Hongkong & Shanghai Bank are the bronze Britannic lions. Another old bank has been transformed into an absorbing museum of ancient art. The Peace Hotel, built as the Cathay by Sir Victor Sassoon hi the mid-1930s and now the premier hostelry for Western visitors, is creaky and listless, but it can still mount a banquet worthy of an Emperor. At a school...
...first six years? Crews listened. The image of farmers sitting on their front porches in the sun and reminiscing is more than myth; it was from these garrulous sources that Crews acquired both his material and the lively idiom that animates his narrative. "A way of life gone forever out of the world" is recalled in these pages, enriched by a wealth of unlikely lore: how to estimate a mule's age, cook a possum, butcher...