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...some of the inertia that has set in at Brussels. At the very least, the inclusion of Britain and its three fellow applicants in the Market would make it a more formidable rival of the superpowers in terms of population (more than 250 million) and gross national product (see map opposite). At best, their admission could impart fresh momentum to the old dream of Monnet, who was sure that "once a common market interest has been created, then political union will come naturally...
...country long survive without their presence? In the past four months, the 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia have spilled out of the sanctuaries, seizing more than half of Cambodia's countryside and attacking at will over much of the rest (see map). It is debatable whether the U.S. invasion provoked their campaign or whether the Communists would have begun swallowing big chunks of Cambodia anyway in the confusion that followed the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. What is abundantly clear is that the Communists pose a lethal challenge to the wobbly anti-Communist government...
...years engineers have toiled at the $3 billion California Water Plan (see map) and ignored critics who consider the project environmentally bankrupt. Last month the builders got a major boost when California voters approved an interest increase on $600 million worth of state bonds needed to continue the project. Now the backlash has begun...
...Commonplace books" were popular in the 18th and 19th century. Habitual readers kept journals by copying out passages from their favorite books and appending their reactions. Auden has been collecting his for much of his life. Quite correctly, he calls it a map of his secret planet. It is arranged in alphabetical order by a fascinating variety of subjects: "World, End of the"; "Owls, Barn"; "Prose, Purple"; "Prose, Annihilating." Under each heading come one or more literary quotations interspersed with Auden's comments. To anyone who has read Auden, the book reveals the sources of his poetry as fully...
...lighter side of literary scholarship gives A Certain World only a small part of its total impact. Auden has involved himself in a great variety of intellectual pursuits, from his boyhood mania for lead mining to his mature infatuation with opera. They are all charted on this mental map, though music is slighted because, as the poet points out, "nothing can be said about music, except when...