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...night before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
...with 100 labor leaders (mostly white) in Salisbury's Unity House, was assailed by 50 farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...
Russia itself has lagged behind the satellites in the economic shift toward Western ways. At stake is nothing less than Russia's vast "command economy," with its Kafkaesque, topheavy bureaucratic fiefdoms regulating every pulse and throb of the nation's economic engine. And though Marx never mentioned central planning and Lenin came to it only late in life, such is Stalin's historical shadow that at stake, too, are a generation of ideological maxims boastfully vaunting the superiority of Socialist planning over capitalism, the pervasive power-and perhaps the jobs -of some 10 million planners large...
...noise begins at dawn with the loudspeaker chants of muezzins from minarets, followed by the clangor of bells from Christian churches. Auto horns, the plaintive cries of peddlers, and the bray of donkeys blend with the screech of jet planes. With evening comes the sound of 64 nightclubs, the throb of motorboats carrying gamblers up the coast to the Casino de Liban, and the shrill cries of prostitutes in the block-long Bourg Central Square in the heart of town...
Most of the Caribbean islands throb to the rallying cries of independence and nationalism. But the French West Indies - Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe's six dependencies - seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater of Charles de Gaulle's French community 4,250 miles from Paris, natives and tourists sit at sunny, sidewalk tables placidly nibbling crusty French bread and sipping flat French beer; in narrow streets, the scent of bougainvillaea mingles with the fumes of beeping Simcas and Peugeots. And when le grand Charles stops over in Guadeloupe...