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Conspicuously present at the celebration were some of China's new national heroes. Among them: a militiaman from Sinkiang who helped capture a Soviet helicopter that strayed-or intruded-across the Chinese border last March. China's insouciant mood in fact contrasted markedly with the tone of Soviet pronouncements; just before Peking's silver anniversary, the Moscow press had let fly the ultimate in ideological insults, for the first time terming Peking's policy "anti-Communist." The Chinese scarcely seemed to pay attention. Their purpose was to establish an every thing-as-normal mood...
...stratified society, Orwell exulted in the vitality of Barcelona's blossoming egalitarianism, in the salutations of "Comrade" to strangers and the notices in barber shops proclaiming that barbers were no longer "slaves." In one of his finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with a young, tough-faced Italian militiaman in the international troops' barracks. The gap of language, of nationality, of blood and class background that separates them vanishes when Orwell reads in his face that he would do anything--even commit murder--for a friend. "With his shabby uniform and fierce pathetic face," Orwell writes, "he typifies...
...smiles on the faces of the children who crowd the streets of Barcelona. Spanish history is stained with rivers of blood, remaining true to the vision of Goya's drawings of a haunted people. Yet still we wait, and hope against hope for the Spain of Orwell's Italian militiaman, of Hemingway's Idaho schoolteacher, of the Spanish workers raising their fists into the air as they travel to their death in defense of their freedom...
...such, but once in a great while a reporter's dispatch mysteriously disappears. The correspondents must live in the segregated foreign quarter and need special permission to travel more than 15 miles from the center of Peking. When one Briton tried to venture out of the city, the militiaman who stopped him warned: "There are strong winds, and tigers may eat you if you go too far." Foreigners are not allowed provincial newspapers, and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese are difficult in the best of times. So the newsmen rely on the People's Daily, Peking's main...
...Fence. It began two weeks ago when a Cuban militiaman slipped into the U.S. base at Guantanamo and -ignoring two warnings from guards -was shot trying to scale the fence back into Cuban territory. Castro angrily claimed that the marines had coldbloodedly gunned down the militiaman inside Cuba. Two days later, six more militiamen showed up on the base and even exchanged fire with marines before scrambling back. Once again, Castro accused the U.S. of taking potshots at innocent Cubans. Then, lashing out at the "uncontrolled bandits" and "sons of bitches" to the north, he accused Washington of planning...