Word: avoiding
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Diplomats in Rangoon concede that, compared to the rest of Southeast Asia -with the notable exception of sturdy and prosperous little Thailand-Burma is not too badly off. In other words, it has just managed to avoid disaster. But that still leaves it far from being a pilot plant for Western policy in Asia...
...this film the "Negro Problem" leaps out of the abstract and becomes the problems of knowing what's worth trying for, and when you've lost--your problem and my problem intensified and made cruelly explicit. Duff Anderson can't avoid putting himself to the test because he is always on the line, and he is kept there by the losers...
...conquest of the South at all costs to themselves. Our current policy, which I did endorse, warns the North that they can escalate the war in the South only at the price of our escalating in the North. Presumably the two things the North Vietnamese leaders want most to avoid are destruction by the Americans and occupation by the Chinese. "You can achieve these goals." We have in effect told them, "by reining in your forces in the South." This policy will not win the war in the South for us, but it can prevent our losing that...
...Decision-making--One of the basic philosophies of SNCC, and therefore COFO, is that local people must become the leaders of civil-rights activity. Since the SNCC worker cannot stay forever, local people must learn to make the decisions, avoid the mistakes, and continue the work that something like the Summer Project might initiate. In practice, however, this idea has received more lip-service than implementation, in some areas of Mississippi. And so the Atlanta Conference, held last week, was faced with the question: Who had been making the decisions in Mississippi and who should make them...
Land v. Sky & Sea. In sum, while the U.S. still fears a land-based entanglement with China's vast army, American military superiority is overwhelming in any situation where air and seapower can be brought to bear. Mao Tse-tung seems determined to avoid any such situation. Protesting a little too much, an editorial in People's Daily last week asked: "What is naval and air superiority after all? Even if twelve American aircraft carriers are deployed in this area, it would only mean twelve more airports on the ocean. What can they do, since the outcome...