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Only those who do not know Scoop Jackson would equate his many facets with opportunism. For nearly all his views represent long-held, frequently asserted convictions. No matter to him that they clash in the ordinary classification of politicians. Says he: "I'm a liberal, but I try not to be a damn fool." Jackson's problem is, however, that there are a great many people who do not know him, and in a crowded field of declared and undeclared Democratic candidates that could be fatal...
Nonetheless, before departing for Brussels on the first leg of her journey, the Prime Minister activated the country's military reservists for the first time since the 1965 clash with Pakistan over Kashmir. During the past three weeks, moreover, India has built up its forces along its borders with both Pakistan and China. Whatever misgivings Indira had about leaving at such a critical moment were plainly outweighed by the belief that the time had come to plead India's case with other world leaders. Indeed, her departure itself, signaling that New Delhi apparently did not believe...
...this age of nuclear stalemate, history's decisive moments seldom result any longer from the clash of arms and armies. They develop instead from painstaking negotiations and wordy debates, subject to all the vagaries and nuances of global and frequently local politics. So it is this week as two momentous shifts in the political shape of the world approach the point of decision. In London, ten years after Britain first applied to join the European Economic Community, the House of Commons votes on whether Britain should join the six-nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly...
...shaky claim to head the legitimate government not only of Taiwan but of all China. For Moscow, the debate underscores an agonizing conflict between its long-standing hostility to Peking and its longer-standing commitment to support a fellow Communist regime. For the Nixon Administration, preoccupied with a possible clash among right-wingers at home now that the U.S. is supporting Peking's admission, the exercise cannot be anything but painful. It may, in fact, prove completely unworkable, despite the Administration's most earnest attempts...
Hung and Xuan cannot see the fighting as a clash of well-defined political forces. They have no conception of war in the abstract. War is something that has always been there, and it is comprehensible only in concrete instances--a bomb blast in a theatre, a soldier who will buy a newspaper, a father gone for mysterious reasons...