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...emphasis here, as elsewhere in China, is on self-reliance, revolutionary zeal and self-defense. The great mile-long Nanking Bridge-100,000 tons of Chinese-made steel completed in 1968 after eight years of work to provide a railroad link over the Yangtze River between North and South China-is a national shrine and a political rallying point for the Maoist line. It is storied in song and film and pictured on thermos flasks, postcards, beer bottles, matchboxes and cake cartons. On either side, the approach roadway is two miles long; at each end of the span rise...
...While calling it a "successful retaliatory operation," the communique from leaders of the Officials also said: "Any civilian casualties would be very much regretted as our target was the officers responsible for the Derry outrages." Not since World War II, when the I.R.A. planted a number of bombs in railroad stations, post offices, shops and cinemas, had the gunmen's terror campaign brought death to Britain itself...
Virtually no foreign exchange has been earned in two months, since the ports of Chittagong and Chalna are almost closed by mines and sunken ships. Food and other shipments into the interior are slow because of hundreds of blown railroad and highway bridges and insufficient river transport...
...Land. China under Mao has made rapid strides toward industrialization-not just in its ability to make weapons of war but in the production of trucks, railroad rolling stock and farm machinery. (Last year, China produced an estimated 21 million tons of steel, compared with the U.S. total of 120 million tons.) Nonetheless, eight of every ten Chinese still live and work on the land. Vast rural communes, some with a work force of more than 50,000 peasants, dominate the landscape. One of Mao's principal goals has been the equalization of life in the cities and life...
...John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...