Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another China-vast deserts and snow-capped mountains and new oilfields. These are the sparsely populated frontier lands-80% of China's land mass but with less than 5% of its people-stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner...
Although the terrain is ideal for armor, the Chinese are sticking to a "people's war" defense, concentrating on guerrilla tactics and mine warfare. "We will not attack first, but if the Soviet revisionists dare to attack us, we will certainly bury them in the vast ocean of a people's war," declared Hsieh Kao-chung, chairman of the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture revolutionary committee...
...month Parliament will meet in special session to consider an elaborate revision of the Indian constitution. The effect of the proposed amendment bill-certain to be passed because of the ruling Congress Party's huge majorities in Parliament and the state legislatures-will be to enhance the already vast powers of the executive and to reduce those of the judiciary. The Supreme Court will lose its right to question legislation on any but procedural grounds...
...emptying over the abyss, and a volcano in the background. Even when it was less convulsive than a Mexican volcano or the sliding lip of Niagara Falls, American nature could and did provide feelings of intense religiosity. A painting like Sandford Gifford's Kauterskill Falls, 1862, with its vast panorama of woods dissolving in gold light, is a visual counterpart to Emerson's ecstasies in the forest three dec ades earlier: "1 become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the cur rents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel...
...already prepared a new version of the "last aid" kit that it once sent to lawyers whose clients faced death in a matter of hours or days. The kit includes motions for a stay, habeas corpus forms and the like. The L.D.F. has now been forced back to the vast task of a case by case attack on individual death sentences. One tactic will be to claim that a particular sentence was the consequence of racial or economic discrimination; another will be to argue that it was arbitrarily imposed...