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...impregnable Viet Cong strongholds until ARVN troops began a campaign to reoccupy it six months ago. Thieu assured villagers: "Our troops will stay on here now for a thousand years to ensure your security." At an anniversary ceremony for the division, he cut the huge birthday cake with a sword. "We don't use swords to make wars any more," beamed Thieu, "just to cut cake." The division commander, Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, thanked the President and urged him "to continue to steer the national boat." It was advice that Thieu is obviously chafing to accept...
Before the revolution, Cuba's close proximity to America worked as a double edged sword. America supported the Cuban economy but in turn tied down the island. In the early 1900's U. S. trade took 40 per cent of Cuban exports. Later the American Tobacco Co. controlled 90 per cent of the tobacco exports. Reciprocal trade agreements forced Cuba to flood herself with imported products, primarily American consumer goods. With such a balance of trade, the agricultural specialization in sugar, geared toward the American market, prevented indigenous industrialization and development of an independent economy...
...force, intimate with the long tradition of the struggle, comfortable in the company of proud men, an I.R.A. volunteer often lives a life not so much of denial as dedication, a laic pilgrim on the road to the Republic, a knight templar justified in the use of his sword. This atmosphere of sanctity and violence is alien to the Saxon world...
...very often that you get to watch a sword fight during dinner. Or that you go around bowing and curtsying to everyone you see. Or that you eat with your fingers and don't feel guilty about...
...trying to restore the personal values of grace, honor, and chivalry that its members feel are missing in contemporary life. The society sponsors tournaments, sword and shield and jousting contests, banquets, revels, and other remnants of medieval life...