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...Castro, whom it continues to give $1,000,000 a day in aid. Moreover, the world's revolutionaries no longer look to Russia or its leaders for inspiration or recall its once-stirring exhortation: "Workers of the World, Unite!" As Communism and advancing technology have learned to coexist, Russia has lost its role as a revolutionary beacon...
These comforting paradoxes provided mental escape for the Chinese in times of stress. Thanks to the unique Chinese gift for blending all manner of faiths, Taoism managed to coexist with Confucianism over the centuries. A Chinese in power, it has been said, is a Confucian: out of power, he is a Taoist, and when about to die, a Buddhist. China absorbed Buddhism, too; in China, somehow, the evanescent idea of nirvana became transmuted into a far earthier notion...
...early 20th, the idiom of American diplomacy today often sounds as if it belonged to the horse-and-buggy age." The President and Secretary of State "have not taken truly into account the cataclysmic consequences of the collapse of empires," continued Lippmann with a rococo flourish. "We can coexist peaceably only if we forgo the Messianic megalomania which is the Manila madness...
...military regime coexist with an elected Parliament? Four months ago, when General Joseph Mobutu overthrew the Congo's perennially squabbling civilian government, he gave coexistence a try. Announcing that the nation would be under military rule for five years, Mobutu nevertheless allowed Parliament to stay open to approve his decrees and constitutional amendments...
...months ago, Sihanouk's army has missed several paydays. Merchants are stewing over a downturn of business. Students and teachers grump about graft and corruption in government. And powerful Buddhists complain about Sihanouk's insistence that Buddhism is a socialist religion, implying that Buddhists can coexist with Communism...