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Sudden Surprise. Almost since the revolution, Costa e Silva has been content to act as the buffer between two bitterly opposed government factions-the so-called "soft-liners," including Castello Branco, who want to operate within a constitutional framework, and the hard liners who demand more aggressive "revolutionary government." Finally, in a showdown last October, the hard liners forced Castello Branco to abolish Brazil's 13 political parties, pave the way for a government party called ARENA, and order indirect presidential elections this fall by Congress rather than by direct popular elections. Since ARENA controls 284 of Congress...
...Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese leaders themselves expect...
...blamed the blizzard on an aberration in the jet stream, the 60-200 knot current that blows from west to east at a height of 30,000 to 40,000 ft. Normally, during the winter, the stream heads out to sea around the latitude of Philadelphia, serves as a buffer between arctic cold and warm, moist southern air. This year, as if answering an airlines commercial, the stream headed on down to Jacksonville before departing the U.S., and allowed the arctic air to freeze the moisture-laden southern front on its way north. The result was already being called...
...Military Strongman Abdul Haris Nasution's soldiers who approved the economic purge. But Nasution is happy enough to let Sukarno take credit-or blame-as undisputed "boss." So long as Sukarno is around as a still popular image among Indonesia's masses, Nasution has a buffer between the people's ire and the army. When, as may happen, the masses become disenchanted with Sukarno, Nasution has a readymade scapegoat...
That is just what the U.S. would like to see. Afghanistan has always been a buffer between Russia and the Indian subcontinent. As such, it must remain neutral. American aid ($300 million v. Russia's $700 million) is dedicated to promoting that neutrality-and to building democracy as well...