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...Japan, held that the forward-base system had become "increasingly unworkable" since the Soviets developed a nuclear striking force. "There is a profound weakness in a strategical policy which rests on bases that are indefensible," he wrote. "Bases are no good in a country which is terrified and in rebellion because of the danger they create . . . it is the task of the Pentagon to find substitutes for the obsolete and essentially indefensible peripheral bases...
Since crushing the Tibetan rebellion last year, the committee reported, the Red Chinese have made their chief goal an effort to separate the Tibetan people from their Buddhist religion. In pursuit of this policy, the Chinese have ruthlessly "killed religious figures, because their religious belief and practice was an encouragement and example to others. They also have forcibly transferred large numbers of Tibetan children to a Chinese materialist environment in order to prevent them from having a religious upbringing." The Dalai Lama told the commissioners that his information showed that more than 10,000 Tibetan children, some as young...
...suburban Elk Grove Village, busy Lutheran Minister Martin E. Marty, who writes for the Christian Century, and who devotes much of his time to patching up corroding marriages, sighs wearily: "We've all learned that Hell is portable. I think we're seeing a documentable rebellion going on against the postwar idea of mere belongingness and sociability. We all agree that Suburbia means America. It's not different, but it's typical. Solve Suburbia's problems and you solve America's problems...
Army & Oil. In the space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with...
...tired of love and love and love. And when I see a play like Suddenly, Last Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I recognize that its chief appeal to those of us in the audience who are not homosexuals is that it offers a touch of 'rebellion' or 'depravity' . . . The philistines at the play used to be moral; now they demand sensationalism at any price...