Word: virtualization
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House Arrest. Perhaps the most pitiful prisoner in this royal prison was Qabus. Sent to England at 16, he attended Sandhurst and spent six months as a lieutenant with the British army on the Rhine. When Qabus returned home, he spent four years under virtual house arrest. He sometimes went a full year without seeing his father, yet had to obtain the Sultan's permission even to leave the palace...
Serious Yugoslav resistance came to a head in 1948 over Stalin's proposed federation between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. When the Yugoslavs refused, the Soviet dictator first urged good Communists in Yugoslavia to depose Tito, then set about that task himself. A virtual civil war ensued between Soviet agents and Yugoslav security forces. The latter won out, but only after some 10,000 Soviet agents, sympathizers and suspects had been put in jail. Throughout the period, the Yugoslavs tried to avoid fighting Stalinism with Stalinism. But, as Dedijer concedes, they did not always succeed...
...Attorney General. Albert has none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President James Madison), or the arrogance of Thomas Reed (whose highhanded use of House rules made him a virtual czar in the 1890s). Albert would most like to emulate his longtime Southwestern neighbor, the late Sam Rayburn. The canny Texan was the kind of Speaker who always insisted that "I haven't served under anybody, but I have served with eight Presidents...
...Virtual Satellites. Throughout the 1970s, Black Africa's most serious political problem, apart from internal instability, will be its relationship with the white-ruled countries south of the Zambezi River (South Africa and Rhodesia) and with the Portuguese territories. At the time of independence, many Black African leaders predicted that the white regimes would be toppled within five or ten years. Now they know better. Guerrillas have harassed Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola, but there is no indication that Lisbon is ready to withdraw...
South Africa remains rich and strong, and has made virtual satellites of four small black states that lie near by or within its borders: Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Malawi. But in the long term, the Africans believe, time and the birth rate are on their side. Rhodesia's population today is black by a ratio of 21 to 1; by the year 2050, it will...