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...cent for its expropriated properties. Chileans who took a conciliatory line toward Anaconda and Kennecott pointedly said nothing at all about ITT. After the scandal about ITT's alleged interference in internal Chilean politics, it would be difficult for any Chilean government of whatever ideological complexion to befriend the giant conglomerate...
...loss to understand how it serves the interests of this country to befriend the theocratic dictatorship, Pakistan, against democratic India. It is true that Pakistan once provided us with a base for flying U-2 spy missions over the Soviet Union. But since then, she has been blackmailing us continually into giving her sophisticated weaponry by threatening to go over to Communist China. It is well known that not one shot supplied by us to Pakistan has ever been used against the Communists. The arms have always been used against India, and lately against the Bengalis in the East...
...avoid national mobilization and save lives?U.S. lives?the Johnson Administration chose a fateful Army strategy in Viet Nam. Instead of massive infantry occupation with painstaking efforts to befriend the Vietnamese, the strategy called for physical removal of the rural population from the countryside, the guerrillas' "fish-in-water" base. People were warned by leaflets or loudspeakers to leave; all those remaining were presumed to be enemies and subject to attack in "free-fire" zones. Air raids, artillery shelling and chemical crop destruction ensued. There followed search-and-destroy infantry sweeps, including gunship bombing and "Zippo" burning of villages from...
INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...TOOK THE GOLD AWAY, by John Leggett. Told with marvelous class and considerable spit and polish, this old-school novel recounts the tale of two Yale classmates who alternately befriend and betray each other well into middle...