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Within its 15 sq. mi., there is no college, no symphony orchestra, no art gallery, no country club, no good bookstore. There is one cinema. The bars run to beer, the churches to fundamentalism: there was a synagogue once, but it closed about ten years ago. Western music flourishes in popular nightspots like Nashville West. The stores are mainly cut-rate ("Crawford's: The Biggest Country Store in the World"). The citizens for the most part are unskilled or semiskilled workers from the South and the Midwest. They find jobs in places ranging from the Clayton Manufacturing...
...free-enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana Sangh; the Opposition Congress Party, a split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with the older Praja Socialist Party). Asked why hejoined so bizarre a grouping, Swatantra Boss M.R. ("Mi-noo") Masani replied by quoting a local proverb: ''In a family a squint-eyed uncle is better than no uncle...
...known before Qabus shortened the name-was not far removed from the 15th century. Fearful that social and economic development would corrupt traditional Islamic values, Said turned his land, perched on the southeastern hump of Arabia near the gates of the Persian Gulf, into a 112,000-sq.-mi. jail...
With more than 2.1 million people crammed into its 73-sq.-mi. residential areas, Singapore is one of the world's most tightly compacted cities. Singapore Harbor, the world's fourth busiest, is jammed with freighters and oil tankers. Jurong Industrial Estate contains 275 plants that turn out everything from ships to toothbrushes. Another 112 factories are planned or under construction. But despite such dire pollution indicators, Singapore is a breath of fresh air in the miasma of Asian cities, some of which are among the dirtiest on earth...
Shortly after Tito broke with Moscow in 1948, he defused the issue by signing an agreement, negotiated under British and U.S. auspices. The pact gave Italy administration over the city and Yugoslavia day-to-day control, though not formal sovereignty, over a 40-sq.-mi. area to the east of Trieste known as "Zone B." Since then, relations between the two countries have improved to the point where neither requires visas from the others citizens...