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...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia might exploit confusion in the countryside to march on the capital and upset Premier General Lon Nol's government. From his exile in Peking, Sihanouk has promised to return at the head of an army of liberation. For Washington, the dilemma is: what to do if the situation gets so bad that Lon Nol-who up to now has said that he wants no assistance from outside forces -becomes so desperate that he asks for U.S. troops? To refuse might topple a potential ally and leave the field to Hanoi, which...
...TIME courageously and properly examines the growing dilemma American Jews face because of the intense political pressures exerted in American public affairs by a cohesive Zionist apparatus that, in reality, represents only a small fraction of the Jews who are U.S. citizens...
There are important differences between the case of the postal workers and that of the air controllers. Nonetheless, the two problems underscore a broad dilemma for the Government. Because it failed to act on its employees' grievances until too late, the Government has been forced to reward an illegal walkout by granting at least some of the strikers' demands. New policies are clearly required to prevent such binds in the future. A policy of pre-emptive concession is needed first-a system sufficiently alert to spot legitimate complaints early and flexible enough to satisfy them before the atmosphere...
There are ways to resolve this dilemma. Suburbanites often advocate improving the transportation system between urban ghetto and suburban industry, thus keeping the blacks in the cities. Some politicians-and many blacks-favor moving industry back to the inner cities. Others hope to build integrated new towns either by starting from scratch in the country, or else by redeveloping vast areas of existing cities. But probably the most practical and far-reaching solution is to open the suburbs to urban blacks...
...spite of his unquestioned greatness, Abraham Lincoln was a man of his times and limited by some of the less worthy thinking of his times. This is demonstrated both by his reliance upon the concept of race in his analysis of the American dilemma and by his involvement in a plan of purging the nation of blacks as a means of healing the badly shattered ideals of democratic federalism. Although benign, his motive was no less a product of fantasy. It envisaged an attempt to relieve an inevitable suffering that marked the growing pains of the youthful body politic...