Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures...
DIED. E.F. Schumacher, 66, German-born economist and author of the underground bestseller Small Is Beautiful; of a heart attack; while en route by train from Lausanne to Zurich, Switzerland. Schumacher, who immigrated to England before World War II, served as economic adviser to Britain's National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970. In his 1973 book, Schumacher maintained that continuous growth was not necessarily desirable; that small, energy-saving units of production could often best serve human needs...
...Wang is emerging as a Chinese version of Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet security chief who rose to power under Stalin and was later executed. But Wang surely has the potential. From his tightly guarded headquarters in Fragrant Hill Park, a sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became...
...makes an appeal to the nation to sabotage government policies. Confusion spreads. Rumors of a sugar shortage, concocted by conservatives hoping to scar the left, send housewives rushing to stores -thus making the shortage real. Giscard survives an assassination attempt. A right-wing general calls for "resistance" and goes underground. Militant ecologists, aroused over the government's commitment to nuclear weapons and power plants, kidnap the Defense Minister...
Though water depth in the area is a comparatively shallow 600 ft., the most promising oil-bearing strata are anywhere from 8,000 to 13,000 ft. underground. Meanwhile, opponents of the drilling could try to halt the work by appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court...