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...nothing unusual about the case. A person need not be present in a country to commit a crime against it. Ricord's Manhattan attorney, Herbert I. Handman, sees things differently. "If Ricord were involved in anything but a narcotics case," he says, "there would be a universal hue and cry." But the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal...
...French takeover in the 1860's Vietnam was an integrated traditional society. The basic social unit was the village, which for the most part functioned autonomously, with strict direction from the imperial government in Hue. Peasants tilled their plots of rice land and participated in village affairs in accord with an ancient body of traditions and laws. Land distribution was not equal, but precedent and a sense of community in the villages--along with the possibility of peasant unrest--limited the inequities. Much of the land was owned communally, by the village; the proceeds from it were used to help...
...analysis--which drew upon the work of Paul Mus, an eminent French scholar of Vietnam--explained that in traditional Vietnam the peasant believed that his father, ancestors and emperor exercised great mystical powers over events. After the French consolidated their control over the country, they replaced the emperor at Hue as the omnipotent father; this mystical sense of respectful awe enabled the French to transform Vietnamese society without serious opposition. When Ho Chi Minh and a small Viet Minh contingent marched into Hanoi unopposed on August 19, 1945, French omnipotence was undermined; the mandate of heaven now descended upon...
...questions about race have tremendous implications in South Africa. With the hue and cry which is being raised in America these days, we would just as soon not be mentioned in connection with our South African Operation. Our position, you see, is rather delicate...
...Still the ever more poignant essence remained, barely visible to this feeble romantic shell, his timbers charred by the explosion of the last decade and more recently ravaged by the imperative of honesty unleashed by the uncloaking of lies, the blind rat revealed for what he is. The rosy hue of the boy's lens was neither dark enough to have borne watching directly the solar flare during the last eclipses not clear enough to have seen anything very well. The surviving sentiment plays a tinkly tune on the gaudy chandeliers of a roaring optimism which lives only in books...