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. . . above the packed and pestilential town,
Death looked down.
* The Marxists are the smaller of two branches of India's splintered Communist Party. The main branch, which claims 75,000 members, leans toward Moscow. The Marxist Party, with 55,000 members, was originally aligned with Peking, but it broke the tie in 1966 when it decided that China's insistent call for armed revolution in India was premature.