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...whose life symbolized the Catholic church's struggles in Eastern Europe; of lung cancer; in Rome. Beran was appointed arch bishop of Prague in 1946 and ran head on into the Communists during their 1948 takeover of Czechoslovakia. For publicly protesting the infringement of religious freedom, he was shorn of power, imprisoned for 14 years, and eventually sent into exile. His death occurred during negotiations that might have led to his return to the country he loved...
Cairo and the rest of the Arab world are only three weeks away from a day that they would prefer to forget, June 5, the second anniversary of their crushing defeat by the Israelis in the Six-Day War. The war left Cairo shorn of part of its realm, ruling over a defeated people and a divided land. Lost in the war, the Sinai desert and Gaza remain in the hands of the conquering Israelis, who are solidly entrenched on the east bank of the Suez Canal...
...course of that tour I took him to visit Harvard--my first return there in a number of years. I was ashamed for him to see the sleazy characters who were wandering around the Yard. However, I would not have one lock of their greasy looking, long hair shorn by edict nor force them near a drop of water nor insist that they wear perfume. But I certainly cannot say that I was proud of the outward appearance of the old Alma Mater as far as its students were concerned...
...tribal peoples of the area, long oppressed by the Chinese. The Russians move no farther south. Aware of Chinese skills at guerrilla warfare, Moscow orders that a new frontier be set up roughly along the 38th parallel. China is to be left to wither, stripped of its nuclear potential, shorn of its most important industrial complex, spiritually returned to the caves of Yenan...
British Author Anthony Sampson, who dissected his own country seven years ago, in Anatomy of Britain, has inspected this platonic marriage in an other volume, The New Europeans. Unless radical changes of attitude take place, Sampson believes, European integration has reached its high-water mark. Says he: "Western Europe, shorn of overseas commitments and empires and protected by the American umbrella [of ICBMs] is a continent without a cause. In this situation, its components are very likely to reassert themselves...