Word: regions
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...precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...
Obviously setting up his trip to Cambodia next month, le général announced that he was ready to use his offices to bring about a Viet Nam settlement. His conditions: "the real ending of foreign intervention and the neutrality of the states in that region...
...coal-and-steel complex, the industrial heartland of the nation. The state's 17 million inhabitants represent fully a third of the West German electorate, and exercise a political power that in U.S. terms would equal California's and New York's combined. Heavily Catholic, the region has traditionally given wide majorities to Erhard's Christian Democratic Union. Hence the surprise last week when, in the state's first election since 1962, Willy Brandt's Social Democrats grabbed 49.5% of the popular vote and 99 seats to the C.D.U.'s 86. The C.D.U...
...Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy, declaring that the U.S. either had to "make a major effort" in the region or "throw in the towel." Then Johnson added: "Throwing in the towel is not my concept." Geyelin does not establish just what impact the memo carried, but soon afterward Kennedy began the process of increasing the U.S. commitment to Viet...
...light of recent relaxations under Russia's new regime, not everyone will share Avtorkhanov's dark prospect. But whatever his conclusions, he is singularly qualified to examine the anatomy of Communist power. Avtorkhanov is a cured Communist, born 56 years ago in the Chechen region. He rose steadily through the party apparatus until a certain independence of thought -he opposed Stalin's plan to establish kolkhozes, or collective farms, in the non-Russian areas-nominated him for purging. After five years in Siberia, where he was sent without trial, he joined the abortive 1943 Chechen revolt against...