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Janwillem van de Wetering sailed for Japan by freighter in the summer of 1958. He was 27, and a misfit in the bustling Dutch society. He had read a few books on Buddhism, and, he writes, he wanted to find a door he could knock on: "a real door, made of wood, with a live man behind it who would say some thing I could hear." Japan, he knew, had living masters who would accept disciples. So did India and Ceylon, but he had heard stories of young Westerners who wandered aimlessly about in these places, eventually dying of dysentery...
...North Vietnamese offensive ever takes place, that cost will quickly multiply. The Communists demonstrated their ability to knock out South Viet Nam's reserves when sappers last month blew up the Nha Be petroleum depot near Saigon, destroying about 50% of the civilian stores. Attacks on the military's reserves of 2 million bbl. might well be part of a major Communist drive. Even if the military reserves remained intact, the drain would be great. If the war steps up again, the South Vietnamese will open the throttle, the Singapore refineries will be urged to open the taps...
With their backs against the walls of moral virtue, the censors are prepared for a knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to cry "But if we censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, free expression in the arts." The censors will cry equally plaintively, "But if we don't censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, the destruction of our civilization." As befits a subject with...
...such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese and Jordanian passports. He and four accomplices arrested later in Rome were suspected of planning to attack an El Al jetliner as it flew low near...
...gotten to the point where the once perennial doormats of the division can knock off the supposed powerhouses...and can say that it wasn't a fluke. This year more than ever the "haves" are being beaten by the "have-nots...