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...French takeover in the 1860's Vietnam was an integrated traditional society. The basic social unit was the village, which for the most part functioned autonomously, with strict direction from the imperial government in Hue. Peasants tilled their plots of rice land and participated in village affairs in accord with an ancient body of traditions and laws. Land distribution was not equal, but precedent and a sense of community in the villages--along with the possibility of peasant unrest--limited the inequities. Much of the land was owned communally, by the village; the proceeds from it were used to help...
WHILE IN THE past claims that the butler did it have sufficed to resolve the crimes of stage melodrama, the attempt to translate that principle into the arena of state politics is laughable. Justifiably or not, most Americans insist on regarding their government with somewhat more concern than they accord comic-opera principalities, and the newest Watergate bombshell--that the president's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, erased 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes--is so ludicrous as to defy belief...
Fresh from hammering out an Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire accord, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger took his globe-circling entourage on to the Far East last week. Compared with his frantic and masterful pace through the Middle East, Kissinger's visit to Peking, Tokyo and Seoul was almost leisurely. As the blue-and-white Air Force jet flew over the Himalayas from Pakistan, he waxed sentimental, reminding reporters that he had followed the same route on his secret mission in July 1971, which opened the door for resumption of relations between the U.S. and China...
...provision as a minimum rather than a maximum is a tribute to the skill of the Russian negotiators. By grossly misrepresenting their requirements, the Russians were able to "accede" to this clause and thereby achieve one of their original aims--the de facto securing of a one-year trade accord...
Sandman gained the Republican nomination for governor after he defeated incumbent Governor William T. Cahill in an intensive battle last June. Cahill, a moderate, subsequently formally endorsed Sandman but did little else to aid the Republican nominee. Republican Senator Clifford Case did not even accord Sandman that formality and both he and Cahill remained silent throughout the campaign...