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EVEN as skirmishes sputtered on in Viet Nam last week, other Asian nations were already beginning to contemplate the uncertain political future of the postwar Far East. Having dealt in the harsh, simplistic vocabulary of hot and cold war for the better part of a generation, Asian leaders initially had nothing better to offer than uncomfortable clich...
Troubled Chile is now worse off than ever, and officials of President Salvador Allende's far-leftist government have been rolling out harsh measures that are aimed at creating what they call a "war economy." Two weeks ago Allende publicly conceded that his management of the country's economy has been ill-planned. He also castigated his biggest constituency, Chile's workers, chiding the miners for "acting like a bunch of monopolistic bankers" in their wage demands, and criticized bureaucrats for failing to improve government efficiency. To curb the groggy effects of alcohol on the workers, Allende...
...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...
Crone, one of four Ivy League players drafted by the pros, was, according to his mother, "absolutely thrilled" by his selection. But the reality of professional football may be too harsh for Crone, as indeed Ivy football was for the quarterback who finished seventh in Ivy passing and broke the Harvard career interception mark...
Even when they resorted to outright terror, the Vietnamese revolutionaries used it to further progressive ends. By assassinating selected Saigon officials who implemented the harsh edicts of the American-backed regime, liberation forces grew in stature among the South Vietnamese people and gained a steady stream of converts to the revolutionary cause...