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Public Housing In Italy: An Object Lesson

March 26, 1968   ROME, ITALY — The Communist Party headquarters in Borgo del Trullo is a storefront between the butcher shop and the fruit stand. It’s furnished with a red banner, a poster of Ho Chi Minh, four card tables, a well-stocked cooler of

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Rome and the Autos: A Showdown Nears 

February 27, 1968   ROME, ITALY — The Fiat is rapidly devouring the Eternal City. And because Rome is unable to satisfy the automobile’s growing appetite, its narrow streets may be the stage for man’s first showdown with the motorcar. Rome’s traffic problem has become

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Tonga: Old Ways and Oil Fever

313 Anolani St. Honolulu, Hawaii    January 8, 1969   Tonga, Polynesia’s last kingdom, begins with lovely circles in the sea. Some are simple coral reefs, mostly washed by milk-green tides and foaming surf with sandy islands in the golden-necklace pattern of South Pacific atolls.

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Land of a Thousand Strikes

LHD-2 Santiago, Chile  April 7, 1966 Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. Chile’s great political forces clashed violently over