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...Diem. In the pressure of crisis, the Government could find no experts who were capable of appraising why such an apparently trivial series of events came to have such overwhelming importance. While U.S. sophistication about Southeast Asia has inevitably grown since then, intelligence is still based on an uneven apparatus of informers and interpreters; it is a shaky foundation for any statesman to build...
...criticism that has yet to subside. They were accused of using a troupe of sexual athletes wholly untypical of the population at large. Masters had built a rather bizarre device: a plastic dildo connected to a camera, which could photograph the interior of the vagina. Partly because of this apparatus, the authors were accused of dehumanizing sex and concentrating on technique at the expense of romance and morality. Psychiatrists and clergymen attacked the project as an invasion of privacy. Masters and Johnson were rebuked for writing a book about sex without once using the word love. The authors have chosen...
...Asian policy to strike alongside the Harvard administration. To forge an effective protest against the war in Vietnam and Cambodia among students here and at other universities, it will be necessary to fight militantly against university administrators to induce them to eliminate their ties with the political and military apparatus which generated the war. Such militancy has thus far been futile because it has been confined to a few universities. But if students all over the country simultaneously launched a determined protest against on-campus military training and war related research, a critical blow would be struck against American presence...
Actually, Brezhnev has always been prominent simply by virtue of his leadership of the vast party apparatus, which is the most powerful of all Soviet bureaucracies. If the widespread theories of his new pre-eminence are correct, however, he now rates as "first among equals"?and then some. To do so, he would have had to assure himself of two crucial sources of support...
...exercise broad supervisory powers over their governmental opposites. The party's chief means of maintaining primacy over the nation's other bureaucracies, including the trade unions and police as well as the government, is the power of nomenklatura, the hiring and firing of officials outside the party apparatus. Brezhnev would have also had to secure the loyalty of a second source of power?those groups that exercise an informal influence on the Politburo. The most important of these is the coterie of party officials based outside Moscow; they hold a majority on the Central Committee, which formally ratifies Politburo decisions...