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...special report was written by Associate Editor Burton Pines and researched by Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo. Pines, who taught European history at the University of Wisconsin and served as our Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1970 to 1971, also conceived the remarkable map that accompanies the story. Designed by Paul Pugliese, the head of our map department, and researched by Noel McCoy, the map shows the economic system, standard of living, and degree of political freedom in 134 countries. The result is a visual representation of the political phenomenon of our times...
Eastern European states offer free education (although the Communist parties have a great deal to say about who is admitted to the universities) and comprehensive health care. Sickness seldom imposes horrendous financial burdens on patients. The Physical Quality of Life Index (see map) shows that the essential human services provided by Marxist-Leninist states often match and sometimes top those in Western democracies...
This new country soon to appear on the map is already existing in our minds. The people of Quebec are now ready to be themselves, in their own country, open to the world, and friends with both their neighbors, Americans and Canadians...
...that it was officially at war, the army has changed greatly. In many respects, the struggle resembles a World War II campaign in an African setting. There are battered green Dakota aircraft, ration packs, small base camps of whitewashed canteens and dusty beer halls, tin-roofed headquarters rooms with map-covered walls and the whine of heavy trucks stripping their gears in the red clay sludge that passes for roads. Rhodesia's 9,000-man army is less than a U.S. Army division in strength, and its war is still mainly fought at the level of small patrols-four...
...between the Ethiopian army and Somali guerrillas who are backed by their ethnic cousins in the Somali Democratic Republic, and the tide of battle changed dramatically last week. Five months ago, the Somali guerrillas had all but driven Addis Ababa's forces out of the Ogaden desert (see map), an Ethiopian region inhabited largely by Somali nomads. Now Ethiopia has launched a spirited counterattack to regain the Ogaden-and perhaps drastically upset a complex balance of forces throughout the entire region...