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...apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls all facets of existence, pulls young and old into the web of ideological influence and ensures that no "foreign" political concept can take root...
...staged photography: the religious dance performed in an empty temple, or the peasant family seemingly ordered to cook a meal for the camera's benefit. Even when the camera turns to something indisputably real--such as the wreckage of the American Embassy or the ashes of a farmer's hut--it always seems to be missing not only the crucial event, but also the crucial parts of the aftermath...
...efficient civil service, police force and school system that penetrate even to the most remote Northeastern hamlet. And, far from least, King Bhumibol Adulyadej can trace his Chakri dynasty in an unbroken line back to 1782. The King's picture hangs in practically every house and humble hut in Thailand, where he is not only liked and considered a symbol of Thai independence, but revered as a living...
Surrounded by a high, spiked fence and a 20-ft.-wide defense perimeter bristling with punji stakes, the one-acre compound consists of five grass-and-straw huts, a camouflaged lookout tower, a well, a shaded hammock for the village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels...
Brew described the remains as "overlapping circles of postholes that were formed by the butts of upright branches used to make the shelter." The prehistoric huts were probably "much like a modern Apache wikiup, a type of Indian hut used in the West," Brew said...