Word: prov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciple families, "no" is said as lovingly as "yes." The children learn to wait; the parents refuse to buy them this or that until they prov e themselves mature enough to use it wisely. Allowances are given not as a dole, but to train children in budgeting necessary expenses. Little girls are not pushed into premature dating; the parents couldn't care less that "everybody else does it." Girls are not given contraceptives because sex is not put in a bag; the girls first want to become women, and are secure enough not to have to prove themselves...
...Somalis argue that much of Kenya's eastern and northeastern prov inces, where the Ogaden and other Somali tribes have traditionally grazed their cattle, is really part of Somalia...
...When there is chaos in China," says an old Chinese proverb, "it strikes Szechwan first; when there is peace, it comes to Szechwan first." Last week chaos ruled in the southwestern prov ince of Szechwan. Peking wall posters reported that an extraordinary - and almost unbelievable - total of 10,000 persons had been killed or wounded in four weeks of fighting involving ma chine guns, hand grenades and poisoned drinking water. Among the casualties were 200 Maoists drowned in the Yangzte River on the way to a rally, the victims of Red Guards who had defected from Mao's Cultural...
Last week it happened again in the arrival of a planeload of emergency supplies donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...