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...pattern of the Chinese Communist terror in his 1949 tract, On People's Democratic Dictatorship. Said Mao: "The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." One of Mao's lieutenants, writing in the Peking Current Affairs, wryly but grimly spelled out how to proceed: "Execution means fundamental physical elimination of counterrevolutionaries, and is of course the most thorough measure for depriving counter-revolutionaries of the conditions for counterrevolution ary activity." What gave the Chinese terror speed and weight was tested techniques borrowed from the Soviet Union at a time when Stalin...
...contracts was announced last week in Bogotá. Colombia's government-owned oil company, Ecopetrol (Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos), and a private U.S. oil firm, Cities Service Co., agreed to share costs and profits in developing the promising El Carare area, a 2,200,000-acre tract near the Magdalena River 120 miles north of Bogot...
...historic document, presented by the West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., is a copy of the earliest known tract of laws enacted by the Puritans. One of two known contemporary copies of the "Capital Lawes of Now-England," it was printed in London in 1642. The other known copy is in the British Museum...
...when the city began to expand, it never had to worry about sites for new schools. One 292-acre tract cost...
...servants were gone, but there were still plenty left. Daylong Julie played on the wide lawns that ran down to Lake St. Clair. In the winter there was skating on the lake, and in summer the whole family moved to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club, set in a tract of virgin wood and trouty freshet. "She was such a normal little girl," her mother remembers. However, there were suggestions of sensibility. When anybody told ghost stories she was an easy haunt, and to this day she is afraid to put her feet on the floor when she is alone...