Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wartime intelligence work. With only one North American correspondent (Canadian David Oancia) and a handful of Western reporters at work in China, it is necessary to monitor radio broadcasts, meticulously follow the Chinese press, interview diplomats and businessmen who have recently emerged from inside. Hong Kong is the main center for this activity, but other busy China-watching posts include Tokyo, Washington, London, Paris, Vienna, and the Communist capitals of Eastern Europe. The most startling sources of news are the huge wall posters that all week continued to pop up in the big cities, calling for or recounting mass purges...
...Castela Branco's main ideas in taking over the government was to "clean up" Brazilian politics. To what extent do you think he has cleaned up politics in Brazil...
...political implications I don't mean "strings attached." But I mean a sort of identity of ideals which were basically what Kennedy had in mind. While now it seems to me that here and there they have lost the main significance of that, and just transformed it into a sort of giving-and-taking-money proposition...
...main purpose in democratic terms is to conciliate a technology revolution with a democratic way of doing it and living together. That's the only way because on the other hand we could not go on with the old idea of a liberal nineteenth century concept of just politicians on one side and technicians obeying them all the time...
...main descriptive essay--"Tanzania: the Revolution as Reconstruction" by Peter Evans--conveys well the feeling of living in a country undergoing fundamental change. Although Evans' ideas could be better ordered, the loose organization of his essay brings across the sense of a country experimenting with a great number of policies--trying to solve many problems at once. Evans draws a poignant picture of a Tanzanian Development Officer leading the fight against backward traditional customs...