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Mongolia for the Mongolians. After months of keeping the People's Liberation Army out of the struggle, Mao's decision to employ it was an admission that he no longer has enough influence across China to be sure of winning by political means. The Liberation Army Daily's announcement in response to a call from Mao said as much: "Even though they [the Maoists] may be just a minority temporarily, we must support them without the slightest hesitation." The Maoists, in fact, have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses...
Regulatory Maze. Moreover, the law would also remove from school employ anyone guilty of "treasonable or seditious" utterances or acts. Here, said Justice Brennan, "the difficulty centers upon the meaning of 'seditious.' " Constructing a reductio ad absurdum, he traced how the law might conceivably include even a teacher who publicly displayed the Communist Manifesto by merely carrying a copy of it on the street. "It is no answer," added Brennan, "to say that the statute would not be applied in such a case." The law is plagued by such vagueness, he concluded, and constitutes a "regulatory maze...
...State Department and the CIA are only two of six federal agencies that employ China watchers; the White House even has a watcher, Georgia-born Alfred Jenkins, to watch the watchers and digest their draconology for the President. There is even a role for the old-fashioned spy-though 90% of the outside world's information about
...Mind. Everything that Wilson ever did or said is explained against this matrix. In a letter to his first wife, Wilson referred to "the flutter and restlessness" of his spirits. By using the word "flutter," Wilson betrayed a quality "so feminine in its connotations that one should hesitate to employ it to describe a man." When Wilson ascribed to Premier Clemenceau "a kind of feminine mind," Freud-Bullitt call this "clearly an attempt to persuade himself that his own behavior was not feminine by transferring his own attitude to Clemenceau...
...liberal Roman Catholic magazine Commonweal echoes a widespread opinion when it admits that the outcome of the war will make a difference but maintains that it can not be "the decisive difference needed to justify a war that will last longer than any America has ever fought, employ more U.S. troops than in Korea, cost more than all the aid we have ever given to developing nations . . . kill and maim far more Vietnamese than a Communist regime would have liquidated . . . The evil outweighs the good." The difficulty in this position is that it involves all kinds of intangible calculations, judgments...