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...first onrush of refugees followed the outburst of civil war in March, when West Pakistan decided to crush East Pakistan's drive for Bangla Desh (an independent Bengali State). Immediately after fighting broke out between the fierce Pathans and Punjabis of the Pakistani army and the Bengali liberation forces, 1,500,000 terrified East Pakistanis-Moslems and Hindus alike -crossed into the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Now the escapees are mostly Hindu, and they bring tales of torture, rape and massacre. According to the new arrivals, the Pakistani government is blaming...
Thus fascism may exist soon in America, but does not now. It would seem the first task of those concerned with human freedom to fight the onrush of dictatorships, to preserve the liberties which are allowed us, to live to fight another day. Terrorism, however, contemptuously rejects this argument by saying that what liberties we do have are unimportant when compared with the injustices which the government is committing, and that a move toward fascism will "expose" the enemy and make him easier to fight...
...most significant trends reflected in the latest foreign directory is the onrush of Japanese companies. In 1967 they were out in front with the biggest sales increases of all national groups. The 38 Japanese firms that appeared on both the 1966 and 1967 lists had a 23.7% growth in sales. Meanwhile, five additional Japanese firms made the grade, joining FORTUNE'S 200 for the first time. Japan's participation in the 200 group is now 43, second only to Britain...
...emergency conference. Their troika partner, Aleksei Kosygin, cut short a state visit to Sweden to join them there for talks with party leaders from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany. The Communist summit, the third of its kind in four months, was the Soviet response to the onrush of reform in Czechoslovakia, and its convening was the climax of a week of ominous moves against the Czechoslovaks. It was also proof of an increasingly apparent fact: however tolerant it may seem to be in its relations with other Communist states-and in spite of considerable liberalization at home-Russia still...
...their seeming to fade or weaken. By the age of 30, he had attained heights he never regained in a long lifetime of painting. He also recorded, for later generations, the candor and gaiety of a placid era and countryside that were soon to be buried under the grimy onrush of history...