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...evidence is that in his final days, Mao, with the ready assent of the versatile Chou, feels the need to bring more stable patterns to China and abandon-or at least temper-the rash experiments and the tumultuous campaigns for ideological purity. In true pragmatic style, Chou appears to be blocking out a program that will incorporate those things that have worked well as Mao sought, first one way and then another, to build a modern industrial state without at the same time creating a privileged technocratic elite...
...already indicated that Moscow is still looking toward the West, "not excepting the most economically powerful Western nation -the U.S.A." The Kremlin may now reckon that Congress, discouraged by its inability to make the Soviets change their internal policy and fearing a genuine breakdown in detente, will eventually abandon its demands. There is not the slightest indication that Congress will...
...Kippur War, Israel saw an unexpectedly high number of its soldiers fighting personal breakdown, from conversion symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt...
...assault on France in World War I. Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year...
...other sources say that Flanagan's strongest case is against Edelin, and if he fails to obtain a conviction there he will abandon his charge against the researchers...