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...course, is not really trying to do exactly that. It is trying to maintain order-not necessarily its own order-in vast areas of the globe. In this sense it faces an infinitely harder task than any imperial power because it cannot, and does not want to, employ imperialist weapons. The military reach of the U.S. across the world is awesome -neither capital nor continent, neither jungle nor village, and no quadrant of the sky is beyond the range of its missiles or its reconnaissance planes. And yet in a nuclear age, the weapons are there mostly in order...
...Assembly was flooded by a deluge of telegrams, petitions and let ters urging Nasser's renomination. Visitors descended on the chamber, hurrying to get their support down in writing in the guest book. One entry attested that "The Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme Police Council, which employ 150,000 persons and keep a vigilant eye on the security and safety of the nation, express their full faith in President Nasser...
...restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me--and that's pretty important too." (King understands there's a sort of sub-stage in here, a "de facto" stage in which civil rights pressure groups employ non-violent methods to make laws into realities.) The final plateau ushers in "the new Jerusalem ascending out of heaven from...
...letter of Spruille Braden Jr. [Dec. 25] gives an impression about the International Executive Service Corps that should be corrected. It is the purpose of IESC to assist those businesses in developing countries that are unable to employ qualified advisers. IESC will not, therefore, confront management consultants with "cut-rate competition." Rather, it seeks in a modest way to raise the level of performance of individual businesses and so create conditions more favorable to all types of business activity...
...applicable to foreign policy. Surely the opinion of the world has condemned the use and threat of force. Does this not give us firm ground on which to stand? Well, does it? Is it moral to deny ourselves the use of force in all circumstances, when our adversaries employ it, under handy excuses, whenever it seems useful to tip the scales of power against every value we think of as moral and as making life worth living...