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...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
...China is now but a sixth of what it was last December. But that still does not close China's door to the West. The trade has spread across the wide Pearl River mouth to the ancient, gaudy Portuguese colony of Macao (pop. 400,000). Standing on a peninsula and two tiny islands, Macao (total area: 6 sq. mi.) is a place addicted to gold smuggling, with customs officers who look the other way and businessmen who will deal with anybody. It was at Macao, four centuries ago, that white men got their first firm foothold on the mainland...
...which China recognized the independence of Korea, ceded Formosa, the Pescadores Islands and the Liaotung Peninsula (in Manchuria) to Japan, and agreed to pay Japan a heavy cash indemnity...
...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...
When French engineers turned up at Kiel to collect the 5,000-ton crane, they decided to save the cost of dismantling Long Henry for transport by towing him by sea to France. German skippers who know the treacherous sea route around the Danish peninsula pronounced the scheme "suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long...