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Even more tragic, Rhodesia holds a strangle-hold control on newly-independent Zambia to the north. Because of its copper mines, Zambia last year had a favorable trade balance of $280 million and is well on its way to becoming independent Africa's wealthiest nation. But it is totally dependent on Rhodesian railroads for an outlet to the sea, on power from Rhodesia's mighty Kariba Dam, and on coal from the Rhodesian mines at Wankie. In the face of economic sanctions, in which Zambia would definitely take part, the white Rhodesians would promptly cut off transport, power and coal...
Western observers see the new Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...
...nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what to do with it, let alone how to make it available to researchers...
...Olivia wanted Sage to decorate their house with works of art; Sage hung photographs of locomotives and maps of his railroad holdings. Olivia liked Oriental rugs and bric-a-brac; Sage littered the parlor with buffalo robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving her "the wealthiest woman in the world," Olivia dispersed his fortune in good works, endowed schools and colleges, planted rhododendrons in Central Park, and established the Russell Sage Foundation, which has to date expended over $60 million in humanitarian causes that the old pirate probably never gave a thought...
...could be dangerous. To be sure, the city's streets have plenty of potholes-but they are also lined by some of the world's most magnificent buildings. There are large and desperate pockets of poverty, but New York remains far and away the world's wealthiest city. Lindsay is strongly Manhattan-oriented, but the city has four other boroughs, and what applies to Manhattan does not necessarily apply to The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island. Residents of a green and pleasant Staten Island community might almost have been hearing about a foreign country last week...