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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of the small but growing number of young men whose angry opposition to the Viet Nam war and bitter disillusionment with U.S. society have led to self-exile and the familiar chant, "Hell no, we won't go." Correspondent George Page gives a report on draft resisters in Canada, Sweden and the U.S. in an effort to evaluate the severe implications of their civil disobedience...
After five days, they arrested the arsonist: a 13-year-old Negro school drop out who was seen scurrying from the tenement where the flames started. He signed a two-page confession describing how he started the fire by igniting a stack of papers. When asked why he did it, he murmured: "I don't know...
...meaningful information about the vast, xenophobic country, but a lot of patient plodding and unusual methods as well. His persistence paid off, and the result, Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to China, was published in French last year and has just appeared in an English translation. A 1,504-page compendium of hard-to-come-by information on China, it should be a delight both for China-watchers and for general readers who want to shell out $19.95 for a vicarious trip...
...Cheating, No Cheese. Though the book pulls few punches to please the Chinese-it deplores, for example, the effect of Communism on China's historic intellectual creativity-it is basically apolitical. Its 391-page introduction includes sections on the history of Chinese art, literature, architecture, religion and philosophy, as well as an analysis of Maoism as a cultural phenomenon, a study of the organization of Chinese Communism, pieces on how to work an abacus and play Chinese chess, and an informed article on "The Principles of Chinese Gastronomy." Two other sections describe some 200 Chinese cities and towns...
...Senator too inconsistent in his views. But he shares much of Barry's outlook. He has a horror of deficit financing and organized labor; he hews to a hard line abroad. "In Korea, we followed a policy of No Win," he wrote in one of his front-page editorials. "In Viet Nam, we follow a policy of No Fight." To his way of thinking, inaction over the Pueblo is a sign of national decline. "We used to say 'Remember the Maine.' Now we seem to say, 'Forget the Pueblo...