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(7 of 10) Aswan High Dam, designed to generate cheap electricity and create some 1,500,000 acres of newly fertile land. To finance it, Nasser turned to both the U.S. and Russia. Rebuffed by the U.S. on a request to purchase weapons in 1955, Nasser stunned?and delighted?the...
The Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be...
During the '50's, when Nixon was Vice-President, John Foster Dulles liked to explain that he wanted to build up a gigantic bomber fleet that could contain communism simply by devastating any country that liked land reform too much.
So, it turns out, the Dulles strategy was better after all. The U.S. has ceased most of its ground activity in South Vietnam and is simply bombing the whole country. The areas friendly to the NLF, which are now more than 80 per cent of the South, will be bombed...
The government in Pakistan at the time of the Harvard team's arrival there was in many ways the same as that of the recently departed British colonizers: undemocratic, elitist, institutionally repressive. In order to revive their stagnating economy, the Pakistani leaders had commissioned the Harvard group to shape up...