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...these: after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which the government simply destroyed the internal opposition, the foundations of apartheid were sunk sleeper and deep into South African society. From 1960 to 1974. 1.5 million Blacks were forcibly relocated from "white" rural or urban areas to be kept in tin shacks in the destitute bantustans or homelands. Petty legal segregation was extended. The apparatus of the police state was crested, including a law permitting unlimited detention without trial. Despite these Draconian measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African in real growth in the 1960s...
...novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard Air Force One, the President was gripped by a darker thought. The terrible fear that O'Brien knew --that he had somehow learned from his hidden masters all about the secret Hughes cash in Bebe's little tin...
...Thailand and $6 billion with Singapore. Student protesters in Thailand have circulated letters to their countrymen with a blunt warning: "Do not be a slave to Japanese goods." In his August speech, Malaysia's Mahathir noted that 84% of his nation's exports to Japan consisted of oil, wood, tin and other raw materials. Said he: "We cannot and will not remain merely hewers of wood and drawers of water." Japanese businessmen and farmers press for protection from imports just as hard as their counterparts in the U.S. Although Japan's tariffs are generally low, critics point out that...
...that seem literally imprisoned by the limits of the canvas. The sense of dislocation and implacable graphic firmness this involved, in works like The Dream, 1921, was surpassed by no other artist. The amputee on a ladder with the fish slung round his neck, the war veteran blowing his tin trumpet, the catatonic blond girl--in their mingled density and strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage. His figures, with their polelike limbs and mouths like gashes, their awkward eloquence...