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...another time, the Nationalist Chinese might have rattled their rockets and threatened to take advantage of Red China's chaos by invading the mainland. Now, though a few officials gave in to the temptation to threaten, the response was remarkably restrained. The Nationalists know that they cannot move without U.S. aid and that, in any case, the Communists may destroy themselves without outside interference...
...instigation of provincial leaders want to increase factory and farm outputs and are evidently annoyed about a resolution to extend Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution into "the minds, the factories, and the countryside." The provincial leaders feel, justifiably, that this will hinder production and threaten their prestige...
...fluke, the Van Lawicks set out two ostrich eggs at a site some 60 miles away and sat back to see who would cast the first stone. Sure enough, the eggs were promptly attacked by two mature, stone-hurling Egyptian vultures, which aimed wildly, often pausing to threaten each other. After the pair finally had cracked and eaten the eggs, an Egyptian vulture that was lower in the social pecking order approached one of the empty shells and peppered it with 30 rocks, perhaps practicing for the day when he, too, would be lucky enough to have ostrich...
Gowon's proposed constitution makes sense enough. To ease the tribal tensions that threaten to tear the country apart, he proposed dividing Nigeria's four regions into "no fewer than eight and no more than 14" separate states within a federation. Gowon also extended his ban on all civilian political activity, refused to withdraw Northern army units from the suspicious East and West, and made his only obeisance to Eastern feelings by promising a federal "rehabilitation program" to aid the 40,000 merchants and bureaucrats of the Eastern Ibo tribe who were driven out of the North...
...turned, finally, to this country, McNamara kicked aside the ponderous language of interdepartmental memoranda, smiled gratefully behind his rimless glasses, and unloaded the theme of his trip: the people of this country, he said, are failing to deal effectively with the immense problems -- in education, health, the cities -- that threaten to choke off progress...