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...Indochina is not over. It has merely moved to a new battleground -Thailand. Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien now calls the long-smoldering (at least eleven years) insurgency by Communist guerrillas the gravest threat to Thailand's internal security. Long ignored by Bangkok, the increasingly bold Communist attacks have become a focus of concern in the 3½ months since the military's National Administrative Reform Council swept aside Thailand's wobbly democracy (TIME, Oct. 18). In their armed struggle against Tanin's military-backed government, Communist guerrillas have killed more than 90 soldiers and police since...
Changing Presidents always creates unrest in Mexico. But the turmoil facing José López Portillo when he dons the tricolored sash this Wednesday as Mexico's 60th President poses one of the country's gravest trials of confidence in decades. The able Finance Minister of the present government and a longtime friend of outgoing President Luis Echeverria Alvarez', López Portillo inherits three major and all-but-insoluble problems...
...preferred sexy movies and Kung Fu flicks imported from the decadent West and from Hong Kong. For the millions of Chinese who have endured countless showings of Chiang Ch'ing's ballet, The Detachment of Red Women, on stage, screen and television, this might be the gravest of the charges against...
...exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
Indeed, the gravest difficulties of the women's movement are now economic: How can women find equality in jobs if the jobs are not there? Equality may be possible only in a fairly rapidly growing economy. Lacking that, justice may require a greater reordering of the old sex roles, with men assuming more of the domestic workload as women move into the job world. Such a reordering will be difficult to achieve, but for men?as well as women?the psychological advantages could be enormous...