The ten-chip
ticket to
the land of dreams
by Clive Graham
Calcutta.
THEY picked him up off the street, one of those broken pavement alleyways within a 5-iron shot of Chowringhee. About time too.
He was stiff, and he had been dead, lying out there, for all of 48 hours.
Nothing unusual, really. There are hundreds of poor old men like him who make the Calcutta streets their resting-place.
Night comes, the warm East Indian night. They pull the folds of their cotton robes over their heads, place a serap of sacking between hip-bone and pave- ment, and doss down with a ticket for dreamland.
These old geezers, who are mostly professional beg- gars, scratch themselves awake when dawn,sends a chilly, foul-smelling blanket of smog over the city.
This one didn't stir. His tic-
ket, you might say, had no re-
turn half.
But strange, When the mon
picked him up 'they hotleed that
THE CHINA MAIL
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1981.
"Here we are-more and more people find enjoyment afloat, adventure or relaxation, excitement or away-from-it-all peace"!
A CRISIS IN LAOS: BUT LOOK TO THE LATINS FOR 1961's BIGGEST FLASHPOINT.
he did, in fact, hold a ticket HE year 1969 will go down in
elenched between forefinger TH history as "Africa Year"
und thumb, A toto lelet for
No. 1 house in the sixth Tace with 17 new states emerging to
ot nearby Calcutta coutre,
which had staged
rack.
meeting two days previously,
the
Paid off
Taces
Knowing that I had been to there, Aziz, my better, asked whether the ticket
Was a winner,
"Be-money ticket. Ton chlp,
sahib," he reported.
independence, with crisis in Al- goria and South Africa, and with the tragic pantomime of the Congo.
But now, I predict, the focus of world attention will shift across the southern Atlantic-to the great tropical forests of Brazil, Venezuela and Peru, to the high
It was o winner all rightAndean plateaux, to the "Banana only six rupees to the 10-rupee Republics" of the Panama Isth-
Notse King-even t pad
stake.
At that, 10 numees, about 250, must have represented rajah-sized sum to the old man. But now did he come to luva
mus: 1961 will be Latin American Year.
For Ove
centuries, Latin
the Ucket at all? That, seemed | America has remained in the almost impossible to figure out.
Most probably, 1 suppose, some alapbappy racegoer who had forgotten to cash it thrust it into his hand,
he
background of world history. Its influence on events has been largely accidental.
In the 10th century, the vast Spanish imports of gold
First slump
of
the
I believe that
this will be
Castro's year
BY PAUL JOHNSON
In the 1920's the collapse of the South American mining boom tho first produced modern trade cycles and intro- contented Bbd Increasingly duced Europe to the meaning of violent, the word "slump.
away by men who do not even know where Cuba la.
For two years, Castro hes been consolidating his position on the island. Now his agents are spreading through the con- tinent. And they are preaching to the converted. Here is my line-up. for 1901:
Revolts
THE CARIBBEAN, — In the
U.S.A.
Jorida
Qulf of Mexico2
CUBA
GUATEMALA
DOMINICA
Mexico
HONDURAS S
NICARAGUA
VENEZUELA
milaa
500
Colombia
CASTRO-The face that dominates a contineut.
London Express Bervice.
JUST
FANCY
THAT
N unknown magician
A pulled off his biggest
coup at LaGuardia Airport, New York, the other day when an official opened an unclaimed suitcase and saw powder and wires, Bomb squad police and G-men raced through a snowstorm
and found the case full of balloons, horas, feathers, and other magician's tricks.
DITES and bruises were
B
new
Now Latin America is moving living, already miserably low, con you imagiac that, from Mexico and Peru purposefully on to the centre of declining still further, after a Utetime
backing caused ап inflationary spiral the stage. Unter the impact of
Into this stack of dynamite, lopers, find scrimped to in Europe, thus foreing Henry modern antibiotics and hygiene, Fidel Castro has cast a spark.
'the 'reward of Cairo gether all his pinchitys and VIII to "nationalise" the monce its population is exploding at His is the first "genuino" re-
policemen who tried re- savings and had bet the 10t on terles and so to detonate the in annual rate of increase of volution. in Latin-American- this virtual certainty?
Reformation in England.
three per cent. In Sao Paulo history-the equivalent of 1789
cently to enforce a And then
ho brought
It has the world's fastest-grow- in Europe. to less than two Dominican Republic, Guatemala,
law that walkers mutat back this evidence of his for-
ing city, the richest urban area years, he has smashed the old Nicaragua and Honduras there tune, to
Communist elements, and try to with military force, especially in heep to the pavements and crow over his fellow-
tiispossessed the will be pro-Castro revolts. south of the equator. Brazil is feudal · ariny, now the best Investment market propertied classes and seized
stage a working-class revolution, the Caribbean, destitutes, before cashing it next.
women objected. on earth. day at the tute office?
VENEZUELA - TUC pro- BRAZIL Under Its now, live virtually all the holdings of
In the UN, he will be strongly Anyway, it just goes to show
Jenio Quadras, opposed by the new nations of American government of Prosi- wire President, But Latin America is dis- foreign capital. that the punter's lot is a hard
All over the continent, his nets dent Bettancourt will be replaced Brazil will emerge as the cham-Airica and Asia, who will join one, the world over.
are viewed with forvant admira- by an army dictatorship and plon of pro-Western Orthodoxy, hands with Castro, in opposing tion by the rest majority of this in turn will provoke a Quadros will become the rival to "yanqui imperialism," the Latinos. Landless peasants, Castro-Inspired revolution. An Castro for the coticnal leader-. And finally. Mr. Macmillan,
will be made to ship of the continent. university students, young army attempt
with the lessons of Suez in mind, In these struggles, the Com will crocrge as the peacemaker. officers, the unemployed in the nationalise the Venezuolan oll The downward trend in, raw elties - the same groups who industry, the second largest in muniṣi bibe — and, especially And with reason for Brita Nabi, had six stitches' pat material prices over the last created Nasserism in the Middle. the world,
China will play an ever- still has à £1,000 million stake decade has clipped its income by East--regard him as a saviour. THE ARGENTINE. The growing role.
In "the Continent of 1001." more than £350 million a year,
shaky democratic regime of President Kennedy will be Ils depleted
H
---(London Express Servic#). political philosophy-- President Frondizi will be swept under fierce pressure to intervene no longer feed the swollen popu. Fidelismo-is the creed of ill- oway. There will bo violent laitons of its elties.
teraio prona; his battlevery struggle for power between two Many millions of its inhabl- Cuba. Si, Yangui No!! — Is army groups. The Peronists will tants ser their standard of shouted in the streets 3,000 miles join hands with pro-Castro and
'No momma
***
But aport from Incidents such these, the continent was merely a rich stamping grouad for merchant adventurus, Latin A Ittle later a mall bate- Americans took part in both foot boy. about six years old, World Wars, they voted at the was standing on the spot where | League of Nations and the UN, the old man had died, calling but they were little more than platutively: "Me no mona, lobby-födder. ine no poppa, me no eat."
Their armies wera Gilbertlan, A passer-by fsbed in his | their presidents
puppets, their pocket for a few colna.
revolutions a sub-editor's joke.
"You be a bookmaker, son, when you grow up." he said.
More correctly phrased, shouldn't "when" have been re- placed by ""? I reckon so.
---(London Express Service).
CARTOONS
BR
'Genuine"
rural areas curi
SPOT-A-ROCKET RADAR
BY PETER FAIRLEY
RITISH scientists have achieved an important break-through in radar. They have success- fully used a new technique to detert missiles at the moment of launching-thousands away.
The new radar-code-naméra Project Madro-gives an semu-} rate "x" on a rocket second after blbst-off. It is a big ad- vance over the present Balliste Missile Early Warning System. which can only pick up a TOC kat as it climbs above the hari. ton-serpe eight
minutes after Bring from Thissia.
i understima Grat in a series of lomp-range festa, mckets imthed in the US. есте elearly detected."-
de
of miles
For Brush defence experts are convinced that the only safe strategy for
na baged on
the future it missiles AS THEY
destruction of THE GROUND.
LOCAVE
Madre is being talked of as "one of the finest examples of and America since the war," eloso harthony between Britain
Ita story is this:
All radar Involves bending out strong pulses of electrical energy, then picking up the ilay "gchoes" reflected back. The breakthrough came os à But the pulses travel in a
Over the horizon
straight line. Problem how
result of close co-operation be- tween a British team at the to bend them over the borizea?
Royal Radar,
Dr William J. Thaler, a (7.3. Extablishment Navy sapert, hit on the sick of Malvern and U.S. Navy metent- Isla, who supplied zult details
Tepeo. Signals are bounced, their incfiafers, experimen- tig-zag fashion, off the under 101 "over the horizon-radar aide of the Sonophere... the lator Bayer" which pos Butto
known sa Tepet. At Malvern like a metal reflector.
a way of modifying Tepee Árss Id with starttinen resaltan det enough relection, Thaler Dadro da paret sies towards had, to tune plantada de 30%. ITG- the Britials RI DE PREVELINA - qúéncy,
a radar. to tender a tnissile ime
potent. It supplies the : Ekalo
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IS BRITISH TRIUMPH
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Detection Station
rocket trail
EARTH
5000 miles
Back scatter reflection from
rocket trall: causes faint
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They say that the pave menta ruin their heals and when policemen ordered them off the roads they'bit, kicked, and scratched.
One policeman, Abdul
into face and hand wounds.
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