Word: mapped
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...Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before (see map, page 27). The difference is that the latter-day wako carries a soroban (abacus) instead of a sword and wears blue serge instead of the khaki of General Hideki Tojo's Imperial Army...
...comeback. Novelist Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work to be their passports. Says Novelist (The Ruined Map) Kobo Abe: "We have nothing left to mark ourselves as particularly Japanese, and we tend to regard ourselves as people with the same aspi rations as our counterparts...
Price of Crime. Burger, of course, is not alone in his concern. President Nixon recently ordered Attorney General John Mitchell to map a ten-year plan for a complete redesign of the federal penal system. In a year of belt-tightening budgets, Nixon even asked for an additional $9,000,000 for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, raising its total allocation to $88 million. Much of Nixon's concern was prompted by a report published by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement. The commission noted that the U.S. now has 200,000 prison inmates, and at least...
...when a band of Greek Cypriot fanatics known as the National Front seized 2,500 sticks of dynamite from an iron-pyrites mine -"enough to blow up every building in Nicosia," according to one newspaper. Soon afterward, bombs began to explode at random points throughout the island (see map), and a police station was seized temporarily. The attacks were aimed not at the Turkish Cypriot community but at the policies of Archbishop Makarios, the island's President. Makarios was re-elected in 1968 on a platform of "a feasible solution rather than the desirable solution"-meaning that...
...three-day conference, called to map out plans for a spring anti-war offensive, begins today at Case Western Reserve Institute in Cleeveland, Ohio...