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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...
...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...
...Doorstep. Increasingly, the Israelis are bringing their struggle with the Arab world to the very doorstep of its principal capital. Twelve times since Jan. 7, Israeli jets have struck at military installations in the delta region around Cairo (see map). Last week's raid, which according to Egyptian spokesmen claimed the lives of three civilians and wounded twelve others, was the closest...
...with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings and reminiscences: "My numinous map/ of the Solihull gasworks/ gazed at in awe/ by a bronchial boy." "Who am I now?" he asks, and answers...