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...from West Germany and Britain. They are also dumping abroad textiles badly needed in China itself at prices well below competitive exports from India, Japan and Hong Kong. But these measures cannot conceal the fact that Mao's communization has wiped out those exportable surpluses of soybeans, rice, pork and oils that used to earn the country foreign exchange...
...result, says one of his aides, Sarit's decisions "are not carried out the next day but immediately." A few months ago, when a pork shortage sent prices up, Bangkok's mayor at first tried persuasion; then Sarit went on the radio one night to announce that pork prices would be cut by 25%. Next morning they were. "He doesn't have to enforce his orders," explained one Bangkok citizen. "Sarit says the word and everybody obeys...
...pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre version of the Koran is barred in all prisons...
...rushed off to the Speaker's Room to object: "A dangerous precedent!"* Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects. Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee...
...three, the hero hitches a ride on a train. At a whistle stop, a pretty young girl (Shanna Prokhorenko) climbs into his boxcar. The train starts. "Mamma! " she screams, when she sees the hero. "M aaamaaaaa!" Nervously they make friends. He offers her a bite of salt pork. "Just a nibble," she says shyly. She wolfs the whole pound -raw. After half an hour boy and girl are so innocently and unleninistically in love that only a mad dog of a capitalist could fail to be in love with them...