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While the Portugese had still been at peace with the Kongo, they had sent troops south to the Kingdom of N'Gola, or Angola, to extend their slave-trade resources. Portugal waged war for human capital, either capturing the Africans or buying them cheaply from black client chieftans. One explanation...
Findley -- representative from Abraham Lincoln's 20th District -- proposed an exchange of diplomatic, cultural, journalistic and tourist missions between "the two giant nations of Occident and Orient." But he asked for continued checks on Chinese "military or subversive threats and pressure."
THE EXTREME OCCIDENT by Petru Dumitriu. 378 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $6.95.
Madness is really what the book is all about: the madness that French Poet Stephane Mallarme called "the extreme Occident of desires," and that is merely the mask for a ravening death wish. The setting is a nameless, flourishing north European port. The narrator is a
Situated at the crossroads of Occident and Orient, frequently buffeted by the cross winds of Arab nationalism and Moslem dogmatism, A.U.B. has from its beginning been torn by controversy. As early as 1882, 43 years before the Scopes trial in the U.S., A.U.B. Professor Edwin R. Lewis endorsed Darwin'...