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...past have been able to completely separate politics from economics, and it seems likely that Japan will be forced to choose between two alternative roles in the Asian balance of power. First, Japan might translate her industrial power into political domination. She could conceivable act as a counterweight to Red China in Southeast Asia, leading the nations who fear exploitation by the communists as much as they do "neo-colonialism" from the West. Or, second, as increased trade leads to pressure for recognition and support, Japan might cooperate with Red China...
...special program" concept be fused with the House system? House tutors and associates could organize seminars and independent study courses that would simultaneously fulfill General Education requirements and provide the kind of guidance advocated in the Proposal. Such a development would reinvigorate the House intellectually and provide an institutional counterweight to the growing influence of the departments...
...Immediate Counterweight...
Such reforms are far in the future. A counterweight to departmental power is needed immediately, and the Proposal outlines a simple but ingenious one. The Constable group suggests division of the General Education Committee into subcommittees for the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Over the present Committee, such sub-committees would have an important advantage in bargaining with a department for teaching time and money. They would know better the peculiarities and problems of the department and would command far more respect as professional equals...
Guns & Burs. Was it on the level? Barrientos offered no convincing evidence of imminent revolution. But there could be no question about the loyalties of the national police. Paz Estenssoro created the police as his private political militia and as a counterweight to the military. Only Paz's abrupt departure prevented a bitter showdown between the police and the regular army; ever since, Paz's boys in green have ached to avenge him. This month when the army turned up two caches of machine guns, rifles and ammunition buried under police barracks in La Paz, Barrientos decided...