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...ensuing decade promises to provide the opportunity for Americans to evaluate China's application of Communism first-hand. Stanley Karnow has helped lay the groundwork for future analysis of China. For those unfamiliar with Chinese history, the first 125 pages provide background data. For scholars, Karnow's massive research--completed at Harvard while he was a Nieman Fellow during 1970-71--will provide a starting point for the construction of broader theories. And for people solely interested in human interaction, the Cultural Revolution and its participants will emerge in the flesh...
...March of this year for black people to tactically withhold their support from the major Democratic contenders until the point when that support would have its most protest impact on "the process of seeing who gets how much of what from whom," while at the same time, laying the groundwork for later actions through grassroots organizing and the favorite son campaigns...
...endlessly debated money problems. But too many powerful IMF members-including the U.S., West Germany, France and Canada-face imminent national elections to risk committing their campaigning leaders to any new monetary compromise that might entail some loss of national privilege. Even so, IMF members may well lay some groundwork for a much-needed reform...
...possible maximum sentences of 40 and 30 years respectively for violating the prison contraband law. The defense was quick to point out, however, that the rule is primarily concerned with drugs and weapons and that the smuggling of letters is so commonplace as to be generally overlooked. Laying the groundwork for a May 2 hearing on a motion to reverse the convictions, the defense claims that the U.S. has never tried other similar offenders of the statute and that to do so in the case of the Harrisburg pen pals would be "discriminatory prosecution...
...demanded such elaborate preparation. First, a firm of English packers spent five weeks in Cairo crating the treasures-each wrapped in cellophane, encased in plastic quilts, set on a foam cushion tray and finally shut in a carpeted crate. The museum stepped up its security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the M4 superhighway that links Heathrow to London until...