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...Iran. But except for the ever suspicious Chinese, diplomats in Kabul have found no evidence that all this was on Moscow's orders. In fact, Soviet representatives in Afghanistan confide that they have advised the feudal country's new rulers to move and talk with caution. Apparently the Russians are wary of being drawn into civil strife in a country on their border, should the Taraki regime run into trouble...
Though Morrow considers his own manners an irreproachable model of civility, he admits certain doubts about politesse between the sexes. For example, he exercises special caution at the entrance of his apartment building. "The doors there are quite heavy, and I hold them open for anyone following me, male or female. There are still some women, however, who feel no obligation to hold those doors for me, and so they let them swing back and whack me in the face...
...perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes pain." Manners are always simultaneously something more and something less than they seem. They are the body language of a culture, the gesticulations of its soul: in the profound formality of the Japanese, for example, or the surly and almost pathological caution of the Russians, it is possible to divine both personal and national character. Manners can be quite serious; the survival of the tribe always depends upon a kind of cooperative forbearance, which is the essence of manners. It is possible that the best manners have never prevented a man from...
ALTHOUGH the new Student Assembly has met only a few times, certain characteristics of the body are becoming readily apparent. Most noticeably, its caution. The reasons for this caution vary, but many representatives say it stems from a fear that the assembly will embarrass itself by trying to do too much, too soon. Representatives say they want to avoid the predicament President Carter found himself in after a year in office, having initiated a dozen reforms while having completed few; they want to learn their way around the University bureaucracy, carefully investigate what kind of substantive reforms the assembly...
Another reason for the caution could be that the assembly is a group of moderate students. This is reflected in the elections of officers and committee chairmen in which the more moderate candidates prevailed over the more radical candidates. Admittedly, the methods of classifying students according to ideology are vague and the margins of victory in these elections were often slim. However, many representatives agree the elections show that the assembly's initial steps have favored moderation...