Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaplen's tour d'horizon includes essays on Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Viet Nam and Cambodia. Its most compelling section explores Indonesia. In a fascinating flashback that offers a good deal of new material, Shaplen re-examines the abortive Communist coup of 1965, emphasizing the probability that President Sukarno himself was involved in the takeover attempt. Despite the bloodbath that followed and the interior problems left by the Sukarno era, Shaplen sees Indonesia, the world's fifth-largest nation (pop. 113 million), as holding the "key to the region's future...
...Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this year, Chicano students at Bowie High School in El Paso?in a predominantly Mexican-American section ?managed to get a rule abolished that forbade the speaking of Spanish on the school grounds...
...based, perhaps falsely, on Nigeria's new tactics in the air. Since 1967, landlocked Biafra has received guns, food and medicine by air chiefly through a section of highway at Uli that has been converted into a landing strip. Except for spasmodic harassment, Nigeria did little to stem the nightly flow of planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count...
...like hot-dog meat, is being adulterated with all sorts of things: soy proteins, starchy flour, cereal and chemical additives. As a matter of fact, 156 out of 421 New York restaurants checked by her 46 inspectors were suspected of serving "shamburgers." So she has revived a long-neglected section of the city administrative code, which stipulates that "hamburger shall consist of beef, all beef and nothing but beef"-and decrees a maximum $250 fine and/or ten days in jail for any malefactor. Said Bess: "This is something I've wanted to do for a long time...
...hold up a gabled brick wall, with a set of cyma recta consoles supporting a three-arch window that sheds lambent light through its variegated diamond panes. Some distance to the right and left of this centerpiece are placed smaller diagonal arched doorways. When the garden scenes arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically from each side. And for a few indoor scenes, there are set up symmetrically a pair of folding screens, on each of which--in a cute reference to the play's title--is lettered the motto "Exnihilo nihil...