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...those weeks that future scholars might well single out as a watershed in postwar history. NATO was meeting for the last time in Paris. No longer would the long black limousines, flags fluttering from their fenders, thread their way along the elegant Avenue Foch to the organization's austere glass-and-steel headquarters. Charles de Gaulle had withdrawn France from NATO's military commands and ordered NATO forces to leave French soil by next April. Consequently, the military arm of NATO was moving to a village in southern Belgium; the civil arm to some prefabricated buildings near Brussels...
...physician is "a man of mediocre intellect, trade-school mentality, limited interests and incomplete personality." He has trouble diagnosing a boil. Scalpel in hand, he needlessly whacks off the nearest tonsil; absentmindedly, he seals sponges, forceps, suture needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...
...avoiding them. Land mines lie buried in paddy trails; coconuts filled with explosives hang in jungle trees. A nylon trip wire can plunge a man onto a bed of iron spikes-or needle-sharp bamboo stakes smeared with excrement that will poison his blood. Stepping on an invisible thread can trigger a cross-bow's arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged to a battery of exploding spikes, the clothes hanging on a peasant...
...largest opera house set in the world's largest cultural complex. It is, moreover, a fitting memorial to an enduring art, for it symbolizes, if not a resurgence of opera (for opera has never before been so popular), at least the conviction that opera is an essential golden thread in the nation's cultural fabric. The mere existence of the new Met, in short, means that grand opera is headed for a grander future...
...circumstances and of his rigid fascist ideology. Fear dominates him. Hatred churns in his stomach. One can only hope, like Abram Fischer, that the integrity of man will ultimately win through and justice prevail. That seems to be South Africa's only hope. It is a slender thread...