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Most often Peking attacks Moscow indirectly. Thus Radio Peking last week broadcast a statement from the Australian Communist Party branding Russia's rulers as "the new czars. They have restored capitalism in Russia. Their armies occupy other countries, their navies roam the world in the direct tradition of imperialism." The statement might have been attributed to someone from Down Under, but Moscow was well aware that it reflected the thoughts of the people next door...
...cost $150,000-probably the largest sum ever budgeted for a one-minute commercial and more than the cost of many 30-minute programs. Never one to do things by halves, Freberg will stage a premiere for the commercial next week at the Beverly Hills Theater, where spotlights will roam the sky as formally dressed celebrities alight from Duesenbergs and Rolls-Royces...
...problem is space. Just 15 years ago, the average steer in the U.S. had about 86,000 sq. ft. of open range to roam in. The land could absorb excretion; natural processes converted it to fertilizer. Today the steer is likely to be crowded into outdoor feed lots with only 200 sq. ft. of living space. Feed lots, where livestock is scientifically bred and fattened for slaughter, were rare in the early 1950s. Now there are 256,000 for cattle alone, and a single facility containing 50,000 head is not uncommon. Since these feed lots are concentrated near cities...
Despite the swift pace of revival, misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...
Armed guerrillas roam at will throughout Jordan. The guerrillas act as their own police, and Jordanian police are powerless to do anything but go along with them. Hussein, in a postbattle press conference last week in the royal cinema of his Basman Palace in Amman, vowed that he would not abdicate. "I am not the type of person who can quit," he said. "This nation is part of me and I am part of it." But the King rules at the pleasure of the fedayeen, and his throne rests on the will of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat as much...