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...free trade unionists who send their children to college, who live in decent homes, who study after working hours to keep up with changing technology and modern invention, who have first names and last names, who have the right to vote and the right to protest, whose ancestors turned trackless forests into overlush wheatfields, prairies into grazing lands...
...They argued that the U.S.-trained and equipped Royal Laotian Army of 28,000 men under General Phoumi was the only bulwark against a Red takeover. The Pentagon generally backed the CIA, but with the proviso that, under no conditions, should U.S. armed forces be plunged into the landlocked, trackless jungles of Laos...
...believe that it can gain victory in Viet Nam without holding Laos. The State Department's answer is that the U.S. is willing to settle for "neutrality'' in Laos because even a costly Western triumph there could not make secure the thickly forested, almost trackless border. As in nearby Cambodia, says Washington, supplies will leak across no matter who controls the capital city...
...major effort to ex plain what it is that God has revealed. Dogmatics, in Barth's definition, is the critical examination of the Christian mes sage in light of what the Scriptures say. Barth's own examination of this message is garrulous, eye-wearying, and studded with trackless deserts of scholarly foot notes. "Barth is just about the most gabby person that ever hit Christendom," grumbles Robert Hannen of Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. But Dogmatics is also wreathed with a knowledge of 1,900 years of Christian writing, and stands as the century's only equivalent...
...most Russians, as to most of the world, Siberia means desolation and exile. In the old days it seemed a trackless waste infested by brodyagi, branded criminals with slit noses and lashed backs who had escaped from convict prisons and lived by robbery and murder. Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...