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...particularly unpleasant feature of life is what the Chinese call qiang xing da pei, or forced distribution. It means simply that if one wants to buy a particular "item in a store, the clerk, who is eager for a productivity bonus, may insist on the purchase of an additional, slower-moving item as well...
...tough-talking camp commandant, Wang Xing, said that the 243 prisoners (ten of whom were women) initially were obsessed by fears that they would be executed. But after a month of "studying" Chinese-supplied materials, the prisoners now realized that China had "exercised leniency and decency towards prisoners of war." The commandant said that 30% of the prisoners now agree that Viet Nam had been the "aggressor" in the war, while a further 60% were inclined toward this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed...
...Andrew Duggan narrates "Untamed World," a documentary on the primitive peoples who still exist in far-off corners of the globe. Among them: the Eskimos in Northern Canada, the Pygmies in the Congo, natives of Melanesia and New Guinea, and the Indians of the Xingú River in Brazil...
Tues., Jan. 3 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* On the Xingú River in the Brazilian jungle, an exploring party meets the Txukarramae, a tribe of the world's most truculent savages...
Half the party will trek far to the north west to the upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...