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...months the government had been discussing plans to build India's fifth state-owned steel mill, and one of the likely sites was near the coastal city of Vizagapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Several weeks ago, in an effort to force the government's hand to start building the plant soon, a regional patriot named Amruta Rao went on a hunger strike. Little by little, noisy support for his demand spread through out the state. Last week mobs went on a rampage in dozens of towns, burning post offices and railway stations, tearing down telegraph...
Still an incessant traveler, Scott spends four months a year abroad, talking to political, military, educational and religious leaders and just plain men in the streets of such places as Tegucigalpa, Vienna, Algiers, Kandy and Vizagapatnam. Last year he toured Latin America ; now he is just returned from 100 days in the Middle East and India. His purpose is to see, hear and feel the sights, sounds and attitudes of lands currently in the news, the better to sound-track TIME'S unique journalism for discussion groups and organizational meetings...
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