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...triangle centering on Mount Merapi, Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit was said to be hiding out with ten or eleven cohorts in the P.K.I.'s stoutest stronghold: the party claims some 1,000,000 members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month following the abortive "Gestapu" (30th of September) coup, the P.K.I, openly defied the army in a region of terror in Solo and the nearby towns of Boyolali and Klaten that resulted in some 200 to 600 being clubbed or stabbed...
...bloody man dead yet?" cried the distraught wife of Dylan Thomas as she rushed into a Manhattan hospital where the poet lay stricken with a "massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...
...time, we should congratulate ourselves for having realized long ago that classical capitalism is not worth adhering to either. We have adopted many socialistic measures, such as the "from each according to his ability" progressive Federal income tax, and the "each according to his need" federal aid to poverty stricken communities, to education, to the arts...
...fail to mention the greatest cause of poverty: the fact that two poverty-stricken people are encouraged to multiply the problem by producing new poverty cases. Politicians might consider an annual cash bonus for nonproduction, the amount to double for the second year, triple for the third, etc. This might eventually get parents off relief and reduce the future relief load...
...Southeast Asia as simple, guileless and misled peasants, the descriptions of Laotian guards spitting into a cup of cold rice before giving it to the prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos by tough North Vietnamese Communists, whose presence the Pathet Lao then denied-and still...