Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gentle the deer with solicitude Solace them with salt Comfort them with apples Prepare them for the rectitude Of Man who will come A stranger with the unfamiliar...
...Coming Home. "The words," declares Executive Director Whitney M. Young Jr., "have caught the imagination, and they come to convey above all pride and community solidarity-and this is a positive, constructive concept." When Young first bruited his conversion to Black Power at Columbus, Ohio, last month, there were jubilant cheers of "The brother's come home!" from militants who had been ready to shout him down...
Through some combination of a ceasefire, withdrawal and supervision, the guns will eventually fall silent in Viet Nam. Then will come the infinitely more difficult task of resolving who will rule and how. One set of plans would start at the top, with the formation of a conciliatory central government in Saigon. The National Liberation Front has, of course, its own design for a coalition government representing a broad segment of South Vietnamese society but excluding members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front...
...hamlet, village, province. This approach is variously described as federal, pluralistic or decentralized. Kahn bluntly calls it Balkanization. It would begin with what the Asia Society's Kenneth T. Young calls a "patchwork of local negotiations" in which warring Communists and non-Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects and peoples, such as the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, the Montagnards and, of course...
...handling of Czechoslovakia are, of course, totally different situations. Both conflicts, though, serve to show the limits of big-power action. The U.S. and Russia must move with caution for fear of touching off nuclear conflict, and pay some attention to the opinions of their allies. Both superpowers must come to accept some changes that they do not like. The Russians may eventually learn the limits not only of military intervention, of which they have always been rather chary, but of political subversion as well...