Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allegorical Tendencies. Steinbeck was an emotional, sentimental, yet extraordinarily powerful writer who frequently mined his personal experiences for the material of his fiction. He was born in Salinas, Calif. The region figures in his novels and stories, including East of Eden, Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men. The son of a miller and a Salinas Valley schoolteacher, he played basketball as a youth and read such works as Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Bible-tastes that accounted perhaps for his allegorical tendencies. He entered Stanford in 1920, but left after...
...fedayeen as a dangerous and uncontrollable factor in the Middle East equation. While the Soviets may or may not want a genuine peace in the area, they clearly do not want a new war now-and another likely humiliating Arab defeat that could destroy their influence in the region...
...Administration in the foreign field; former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Edwin Reischauer, not surprisingly, places it even higher. Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, or a thinly veiled sellout, could well ensure eventual Chinese domination of the whole region. He looks instead for "a continuing, even if less conspicuous" U.S. role in Asia after Viet Nam-a view that Nixon may not share...
...Peking that offered choice insight into the passions aroused by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The document, a Red Guard pamphlet obtained in Hong Kong, purports to be the minutes of a meeting of the Peking leadership with rival Red Guard factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party...
Tactical or Political? Another area of concern is the region around Danang, the country's second-largest city and the hub of I Corps. Three times in six days last week, Communist gunners raked allied base complexes in Danang with rocket and mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence...