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...first glimpse last week of a Russian jetliner that figures to become a regular visitor. Into Washington's Dulles International Airport-and later into airports at Philadelphia and New York, flew an Ilyushin-62 fan jet laden with caviar, vodka and souvenirs for American reporters and dignitaries. Purpose of the visit was to pass U.S. airworthiness and noise-abatement tests preliminary to the introduction, long delayed by cold war vicissitudes, of nonstop flights between New York and Moscow...
...Only for Visitors. Lately, the Communists have been turning to brassy, Western-style casinos. Yugoslavia pioneered the big-time play, will soon open its twelfth casino in a Slovenian mountain resort. Designed to shake valuable hard currency from travelers, they were first inspired by Italian tourists. "Italians like girls and gambling," says an executive of Putnik, the state travel agency, "so we gave them nightclubs and casinos." Briefly outraged, Yugoslavia's Communist neighbors soon began setting up their own. Locals are not allowed, but visiting rubes are welcome, even from other Red countries. "Sometimes a Czech visitor walks away...
...fair to Haiti. "Greene's fictional Haiti," you say, "seems not very far removed from the real one . . . a Black Power station," etc. Well, this just isn't so. Greene found what he came looking for-Papa Doc, the Tontons Macoute, Black Power, a sick society. The visitor without this preconception will see little or nothing of Haiti's cloak-and-dagger world. He will be overwhelmed instead by the Haitian people who have spurned those who strutted in the capital and stole their taxes, from Dessaline's time to the present. The Haitians continue through...
...from the horns of oxen plowing the furrows of Costa Rica. Radios are replacing the storytelling dervishes in the coffeehouses of Turkey and Iran, and they are standard equipment in the tea stalls of Pakistan. Thailand's klongs echo to transistor music from peddlers' sampans; a visitor to an Ecuadorian minga, in which the Indians come together for communal road building, calculated that at least one tiny transistor radio was sounding its unavoidable message every 20 yards along the two-mile road. Radio has long been the window on the world for isolated areas, but the cheapness...
...those picked to rule wisely. It is a curious quality of those who suffer least from these disabilities not fully to understand the source of their strength. An Englishman, an expert in guerrilla warfare, put it, I think brilliantly, to a Washington friend about a year ago. The visitor was asked why American efforts to impart the rudiments of orderly government seemed to have so little success in underdeveloped countries. "Elemental" was the reply. "You teach them all your techniques, give them all the machinery and manuals of operation and standards of performance, and the more...