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There has been no rainfall in many parts of Mozambique for three years, and the earth, the grass dwellings and even the sky have turned a deadly ashen hue. International relief officials in the capital of Maputo estimate that 170,000 Mozambicans have died since the drought began. A United Nations situation report issued in early June predicts that Mozambique's famine will probably worsen through the year and reach its most critical stage early in 1985. U.N. officials in Mozambique say that 1.5 million people out of a population of about 13.4 million are already totally dependent...
...Afghan crisis" so as to free its hands completely for a policy of opposition to détente. And when we helped our neighbor Afghanistan give a rebuff to the aggression, repulse the attacks of the bandit gangs operating primarily from Pakistan territory, Washington and Peking raised an unprecedented hue and cry. The Soviet Union was accused of all imaginable sins: an ambition to make a breakthrough to the warm seas, an intention to pocket foreign oil, etc. The actual reason for that campaign of slander was the collapse of the plans to draw Afghanistan into the orbit of imperialist...
...reason that our government is not to their liking." This statement has stood the test of time. Fantastic allegations about the Soviet Union's ambitions for "world supremacy" and "a world Communist government" may only lead the cause of international intercourse and cooperation into a dangerous deadlock. The hue and cry about "international terrorism" allegedly being masterminded by the Soviet Union is just as absurd...
...equivalence of the ferocity of the whole encounter." This is perhaps what Mallarme refers to in his famous phrase about describing not the object itself but the effect it produces. To speak of "Motherwell black" or "Motherwell blue" is not to identify a particular hue-there are many blacks in his work and a near infinite range of blues, from creamy cerulean to wine-dark-but rather to evoke the way these colors work, as stable characters in a plot of sensation...
...Hue, the ancient imperial city of Viet Nam, the Communists seized large parts of the city-and only grudgingly yielded them block by block under heavy allied counterattacks at week...