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...doubt that Mao and Lin can force some concessions from the stubborn provincials. The two leaders still appear to have the army on the side. Military personnel made up the majority of the 100,000 officials assigned to handle accommodations for the Red Guards coming in and out of Peking since this summer. Military officers probably also helped the organization of the Red. Rebel workers...
Immune Pros. Naturally, the Philippine crime rate has stubborn social origins, including the trauma of Japanese occupation, serious unemployment, an average annual income of $140 and the growing pains of a very young nation. In addition the Philippine legal system is appallingly weak. At the top, the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is so all-embracing that the court has an ever-mounting backlog (now three years), and some decisions are reached only after six years. The country's lower courts are so swamped (243,200 cases) that even Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around...
...Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The manuscripts usually come from agents-grey cartons from William Morris, orange from Curtis Brown. It is here that the vagaries of book publishing can get stickier than a freshly glued spine at a book bindery. Established authors are apt to be stubborn, demanding, supersensitive, uneven in their production, and extremely difficult to hold on to. For example, Cerf did not want to publish Author Robert Crichton's second book, Rascal and the Road; he was convinced that it would not sell. Crichton insisted. Cerf published it, and sure enough, the book failed...
...contention between the two countries when he was granted asylum in the U.S. legation during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, no longer interests them-though a 24-hour watch is maintained just in case he should decide to step outside. With Bulgaria, the major issue is Sofia's stubborn insistence on remaining the only European country that still jams Voice of America broadcasts...
...four-hour sessions held at gunpoint, they told their captives that they were "killing thousands of Americans and winning many battles," and that "the American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren, and "no one ever said anything." In choosing Long Vinh, the Viet Cong had picked badly. Though the area is 95% under Communist control, almost every young man in the village has joined the South Vietnamese...