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...open for the individual and for society." But even were this true, Djilas does not prove that a realistic alternative to Tito's power centralizing existed. Could the state have survived in that era without a strong-handed Tito, when nearly all other developing countries were experiencing continuing civil strife? Djilas must establish this before he can expect better from Tito. Perhaps no one could have improved on his governing...
Even before all the victims had been buried, a three-man U.S. team headed by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers arrived in the strife-torn Central American country to investigate charges that government security forces had taken part in the killings. U.S. economic and military aid, totaling $25 million, was suspended until the matter could be clarified...
...India's northeastern state of Assam, there has been a year of student-ledagitation against "foreigners" in their midst, including Indians from the state of West Bengal as well as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The ongoing strife has paralyzed the state's oil industry, which supplies 12% of India's needs The student protest in Assam has been restrained by comparison with a savage outbreak of hatred against Bengalis in the neighboring state of Tripura; last June native tribespeople massacred more than 1,000 Bengali settlers...
...series of appearances in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the states with a non-Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu factions. To demonstrate her government's concern over the strife, Mrs. Gandhi last week reconvened the National Integration Council, a non-sectarian group that includes leaders with different religious and political affiliations...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by halo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy