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Cooper is frightened, but he cannot give in. His heroes embody for him the esoteric principle, the precious bane that alone can heal his life and save his soul: courage. "They have it. I have to save it." He disarms the lot of them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the...
A year ago short, lank-haired Manabu Mabe was a familiar but furtive peddler on the streets of Brazil's metropolitan (pop. 3,650,000) Sao Paulo. His wares: his own hand-painted ties, priced from 85^ to $1.15. "It was embarrassing and illegal," Mabe confesses. "I had no...
Old Obsession. Peking's probes into India, according to this theory, were primarily designed to seal off rebellious Tibet from outside influences, specifically to prevent any more Tibetans from escaping to India and to exclude the Indian pilgrims and traders who have long been the chief source of news...
In Laos, where the year-old government of Premier Phoui Sananikone has taken an ever firmer pro-Western stance, Peking by this theory was driven by the same motive that prompted its intervention in the Korean war: an obsession with the need for friendly, or, at worst, safely neutral buffer...
Obsession. The Communists have so far not tried to impose Chinese people's communes on North Viet Nam. But less than 20% of the peasants have joined government-sponsored cooperatives, and the party magazine, Nguyen Dam, berates the farmers' "obsession to produce individually." Despite a Soviet loan of...