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43rd ANNUAL SHRINE EAST-WEST FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). Oldest of the college all-star football contests, from San Francisco...
...Fragile Flirtation. As NATO heads towards its 20th anniversary, its biggest danger, ironically, comes from the current European détente. The new state of East-West relations, says U.S. NATO Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, is still a "fragile flirtation, with the West pitching most of the woo." But NATO nations are acting as if the cold war were over and could never be renewed. They are losing, says Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General from 1957-1961, "the cement of fear that bound them together." They tend to squabble over everything from their respective troop...
Disengagement. No one reminded Romney that Malaya was an East-West battleground before most Americans knew where Viet Nam was, that Laos nearly slipped under Communist control six years ago, that the U.S. presence in Asia encouraged Indonesia's excision of Communist influence...
...order next, for we face the same problem: to act in our self-interest or to further some ideal image of ourselves as leaders of the free world, whatever the cost. In the Mideast crisis we wisely did our best to keep the conflict local, not part of the East-West confrontation. In Viet Nam, we emphasize the role of Chinese and Russian Communists to justify our own position, despite the fact that the aid provided by more than 400,000 troops far outweighs any material help from the Communists...
...that, compared to the buccaneering days of Stalin, Russia has become respectable as a world power. At home it has shown a measure of liberalization, and a pragmatic concern with prosperity that tends to discourage foreign adventure. Abroad, it has shown discretion in staving off any major, nuclear East-West conflict. The 1966 Tashkent Declaration, in which Russia acted as mediator between warring India and Pakistan, symbolized this new Soviet international respectability. But Moscow has had great difficulty in translating this image into concrete influence, partly because it seems basically divided as to its ultimate aims...