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...Marxist-Leninist states, egalitarianism is an empty slogan and socialist rule has become more a dictatorship of praetorians than of the proletariat. In a famous 1957 diatribe, Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas railed against the privileges accorded a "new class" of Communists???party hierarchs, ranking bureaucrats, managers of state enterprises, and superstars in the arts and sports...
Good question. All week, rumors of an invasion coursed through the world's major capitals, and frenzied speculation focused on what the U.S. was up to. By keeping everyone guessing?including the Communists???the Administration infuriated more than a few Congressmen, diplomats and newsmen. But it also pulled off a kind of psychological-warfare coup...
Even though the President emphasized the sanctuaries, some parts of his speech?two references to the need to protect all of Cambodia's 7,000,000 people, the description of the whole country as a potential staging area for the Communists???raised the question of whether the U.S. really would or could confine itself to the border areas. There seemed to be a suggestion, not heard in Washington for some time, of what one Administration critic called "open-endedness" about the conflict. The U.S. "foray" presents the North Vietnamese with a significant military challenge. They must either take it lying...
Nevertheless, some form of recognition of the N.L.F. will have to be granted if the talks are to succeed. One possible formula: the "Greek solution," under which the Communists???as in Greece after the end of its civil war in 1949?would be allowed to operate as a legal party, after laying down their arms and renouncing terrorism, but would initially be denied Cabinet-level representation...
Whether Galbraith's program can be considered superb?or even modestly right?is questioned by defenders of U.S. policy. It is hard to believe, for example, that abandoning most of the countryside to the Communists???the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that...