Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straws in the wind: 1) local tribesmen are supplying the French with more information about Communist movements than ever before; 2) the native Viet Nam soldiers are coming into their own. French officers, once hostile to their small, thin allies, now speak enthusiastically of the Viet Nam soldiers, report them gaining in strength and spirit. Last week, in an isolated post 30 miles south of Hanoi, a small Viet Nam unit fought off Communist attacks until relieved by a column of their own armor and infantry. The tough little Viet Nam soldiers evacuated their wounded, rebuilt their fortifications...
Purges. The Ukrainians, 40 million strong and proud of their own mother tongue, have a local patriotism as fierce as any Scot's. "For many centuries," Khrushchev himself once proclaimed, "the Ukrainian people fought for the right to develop their own culture, build their own schools, publish their own literature . . ." Yet it was to root out just such "bourgeois nonconformity" that Khrushchev was sent to Kiev in 1938. Characteristically, he started with a purge, not only of the "enemies of the people" (i.e., Ukrainian patriots) but of "all Communists who have lost their vigilance." Three thousand local party secretaries...
...dead. Next day, amidst national mourning, he led the funeral procession from the cathedral to Playa Ancha cemetery on a hill overlooking the disaster scene. Then he ordered the arrest of the district highway engineer who had stored the dynamite in the warehouse without notifying firemen and local authorities...
...talents. Last year, on the 150th anniversary of Presbyterian home missions in the U.S., his fellow Presbyterians discussed using them in a new and nationwide ministry. Their object: to reach the millions of Americans who need some religious help but who exist outside the neatly traced orbits of local church congregations...
...their isolation, the Indians developed surprisingly few originalities of dogma. But they did intersperse their religious rites with local Hindu practices. Like Hindus, Indian Christian women have always worn large gold earrings in the upper part of their ears. The Christians preserve Hindu-style observances for birth, marriage and death, e.g., when a child is born, its father pours into its mouth three drops of honey in which gold has been dipped...