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...still bars minarets around its mosques as too ornamental. The present ruling house descended from the wild peaks and established its capital at Muscat two centuries ago. Its dynasts turned from theocratic to temporal rule, and with the title of sultan instead of imam, built up a trading and slave-running empire that once extended from Zanzibar to Iraq...
...name derives from the treaties of "perpetual truce" ending "hostile acts at sea" (i.e., piracy, slave trading) that the British signed with their rulers in the 19th century...
...Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from Moscow. The area is part of the Karaganda administration of Gulag, the vast slave-labor system that Malenkov helped found. In Ust Kamenogorsk, Malenkov will be constantly watched. If his exile follows the pattern of previous top-party banishments (Trotsky was banished to the same province), he will be amply supplied with creature comforts and vodka, but there will be no escape. Nor would...
...biggest chemical unit with 36,600 workers. B.A.S.F. also employs 11,000 at its Auguste-Victoria coal mine in the Ruhr. Masterminding B.A.S.F.'s comeback is its wartime head, Chairman Carl Wurster, 56, who was acquitted at Nurnberg on charges of plundering occupied countries and employing slave labor...
Dividends Plus Brainwashing. Kinmond asked straight-from-the-shoulder questions and often got surprisingly frank replies from English-speaking guides and government officials. Once, spotting a boxcar loaded with ragged Chinese under the supervision of a burpgun-toting guard, he asked what they were. Answer: slave laborers. On another occasion he asked a Chinese official whether the government's campaign to "remold" recalcitrant citizens consisted of brainwashing. "That is what it is," replied the official. "We need to wash our faces every day, why shouldn't our brains be washed, to adjust to changes in the world...