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The invaders, possibly fewer than 50 men, landed by boat late last month on Haiti's southern coast, linked up with some two dozen sympathizers and disappeared into a rugged spine of mountains ten miles inland. When news of the landing reached Port-au-Prince, Duvalier rushed his militiamen...
Viewed with the naked eye or the world's biggest telescope, the moon looks flat. Because of its great distance, the sharpest irregularities on its surface show only because of the shadows that they cast in slanting sunlight. But the moon is more rugged than Afghanistan; when earthly astronauts...
"The leadership vacuum has produced an unacceptable and dangerous reaction. Some well-intentioned Americans, frustrated by the paralysis in our foreign policy, have turned to a doctrine of naked power. This doctrine holds that 'total victory' can be won by simply standing up to the Russians, both guns...
Chest of Tattoos. The three royal families are themselves a pleasantly nostalgic reminder of Scandinavia's great conqueror-kings. Long since shorn of all power, the democratic monarchs are universally liked by their subjects and show none of the condescension that surrounds the British throne. Danes seem happy enough...
The vast (118,000 sq. mi.), rugged land is becoming industrialized. However, wood products still account for three-quarters of its exports, and the government has only recently awakened to the fact that the forests have been badly overexploited. Finland's wage-price spiral rises unchecked, largely because of...