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...Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army must climb up rocky Jeep paths and through heavily forested hills before reaching...
...psychotop'-a place where you anchor your soul." France's famed Le Corbusier sounded the same note in a letter to the mayor. "Venice must be declared a sacred city," wrote Corbu. "Venice, without roads, is a city where the human nervous system can regain its equilibrium and man's heart open itself to serenity...
Perhaps the day's headliner is the nationally-televised scrap between Notre Dame and Oklahoma, two ambitious teams anxious to regain some of the gridiron prestige they've lost the last two or three years...
...pact dissolves all barriers to trade and travel between the two countries, and makes the usual vow to regain "sacred Arab rights in Palestine." The promise of mutual military support strengthens the regimes of both Saud and Hussein. By itself. Saud's ragtag soldiery would be of little use in a full-scale war, but Hussein's crack, British-trained Arab Legion is the best of all the Arab armies...
Portugal is determined not to be forced out of Angola, and is racing against time to regain the confidence of the politically indifferent African masses. Itself one of Europe's most backward countries, politically and economically, Portugal has not made enough headway in coping with the violent forces of the African present...