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...bygone days of Empire, the Australian sheep farmer, the Gold Coast witch doctor and the Bengali peasant shared a common bond. All owed allegiance to the British sovereign; all were British subjects by virtue of that allegiance. As Edmund Burke put it, these were ties "which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." In a moment of difficulty or danger, a man's British citizenship could easily be his most valuable possession. In 1849, when Don Pacifico, a Jewish merchant of Malta, was refused compensation by the Greek government for injuries he had suffered...
...upper-class, Anglo-Saxon prejudice of Harvard's ruling elite than its open and proudly flaunted prejudice against women in admissions policy. And though it would be difficult to argue that a bright woman forced to go to, say, Vassar instead of Radcliffe is as oppressed as a Laotian peasant woman strafed by the U. S. Air Force, or a black woman or man in this country deprived of any sort of decent education at all, it is clear that a 50-50 admissions policy by next year is a cause worth fighting...
During a recent appearance at his summer White House in Valparaiso, Allende heard a peasant in the cheering crowd shout: "Compaňero Presidente, this arm of mine will work 20 times harder than before the people came to power!" Allende's first measurable test of popularity will come in a nationwide round of municipal elections in early April, when he hopes that his "Popular Unity" front will win control of Chile's major cities. To keep things as calm as possible, the President has announced that a planned visit by Fidel Castro has been postponed until after...
...Peru, some 100 Catholic missionaries are working with Peruvian priests in a new organization called the National Office of Social Information (ONIS), an unabashedly leftist lobbying effort. Recently ONIS criticized the new Peruvian land-reform program as being too capitalistic because it preserved the property principle in providing for peasant shares; by reverse psychology, their extreme position slyly helped make the government's program more acceptable to conservatives...
There are several fine moments: a peasant father rubbing spit in his eye and kissing his crucifix when he suspects Sharif of Satanic evil, or a ritual killing of the hothead who breaks away from Caine and attempts to destroy the village. He charges at the Captain, brandishing a battleaxe; his target calmly raises a pistol, and fires at his groin. A child strikes the felled warrior two glancing blows with a mace; the villagers look on. The rebel dies in agony...