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...deny external successes to International Communism is not merely a negative, defensive policy. It accelerates the evolution within the Sino-Soviet bloc of policies which will increasingly seek the welfare of their own peoples rather than exploit these peoples in world conquest...
...enthusiast. Surrounded by snow, with the cold wind whipping across his face, ski poles in hand and poised to make the suicide slalom run, he suddenly realizes that he is a member of a team. There is togetherness and camaraderie in skiing; Men against Nature, the spirit of conquest, adventure and the Great Outdoors...
...even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners? he asked. "Classrooms for our children," responded...
...Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable Mediterranean city of some 700,000 people, but the Moslem conquest, the Crusades and earthquakes devastated the city, and, probably in the 14th century, the patriarchs moved to Damascus...
...surpass India's." Per capita income in both countries is about the same. The problem of absentee land holdings was first tackled in the Eastern wing when the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate slower than that of the U.S.A. and many other developed countries. Karachi is an over-crowded...