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Buddhist Demonstrations. In the Sai gon government's ouster of popular, powerful I Corps Commander Thi fort night ago, the politically ambitious Bud dhist bonzes thought they had a torch to hold to the feet of the government...
NESA's people are a sentimental lot anyway: they are fond of saying that the most magnificent electric sign in the U.S.A. stands in New York harbor, holds a torch of 19 lamps that create 13,000 watts of illumination. They had no hand in the Statue of Liberty, but they have done pretty well themselves. One member firm created the giant 474-ft. baseball Scoreboard in Houston's Astrodome, whose animated display when the Houston Astros hit one of their rare homers includes steers with the U.S. and Texas flags waving from their horns. In New York...
City Under Siege. That was too much for the opposition, and off it went on a violent rampage that has flared sporadically ever since. Homes, shops and autombiles were put to the torch, and hundreds of pro-North sympathizers were tortured and killed. Last week, when Commonwealth nations gathered in Nigeria's seaport capital of Lagos to discuss the Rhodesia question, they found a city under siege. Extra police patrolled the downtown area, and roads were littered with charred automobiles. Then, shortly after Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived back in England, all cable, telephone and radio communications...
Only Ashes. At the river, a high pyre had been erected. As Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Soviet Premier Kosygin and scores of other foreign dignitaries watched, the priests sprinkled Shastri with rose petals and stacked sandalwood logs across his white-shrouded body. A torch of thin twigs was handed to Shastri's eldest son, 32-year-old Hari Krishnan. According to custom, he walked three times around his father's body, then put the flame to the pyre. Priests poured on ghee and incense. Within seconds, the flames erupted, illuminating the wisp of white under the logs. Soon...
...SAVAGE STATE, by Georges Conchon. This scorching satire on race politics in Africa is written with an acetylene torch, should be read through goggles...