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...oriental Wehrmacht poised to blitz the world. It recognizes that, in conventional terms, China's foreign policy has been militarily very conservative. The Administration does, however, fear that unless it acts decisively in Vietnam, "wars of national liberation"--which it has defined as a new style of "aggression"-- will engulf the underdeveloped world as surely and easily as Hitler's armies rolled across Europe...
...will determine--yes, it will determine--whether ambitious and aggressive nations can use guerrilla warfare to conquer their weaker neighbors." The Administration views the underdeveloped world as a dry tinderbox of social and economic injustice ruled by weak and inept regimes; it believes that a spark from China may engulf the whole third world in revolutionary flames; it fears the emergency of increasing numbers of "regimes responsive to Peiping's will." How tenable are these views of "wars of national liberation...
...crystalline Egyptian sunlight, 130 miles up the Nile from Luxor. It was originally dedicated to two Egyptian brothers, Petesi and Pihor, who had been drowned in the Nile. When the rising waters of the 300-mile-long lake formed by the Aswan High Dam similarly threatened to engulf their sanctuary, the Egyptian government had it dismantled into 650 pieces in 1962. The temple was offered to the U.S. in gratitude for a $16 million U.S. contribution toward saving older and larger temples, including Abu Simbel...
...like his father's-and with what Frost himself called "my Indian vindictiveness," found survival in poetry. His poems became "tools or weapons for actually trying to resolve those conflicts within himself, or between himself and others, which he viewed as being so dangerous that they might otherwise engulf...
When he is through speaking, the crowds engulf him, clutching at his arms, reaching over his shoulders to grasp his hand, clapping him on the back. "You're wonderful!" women cry. Men shout, "Good luck!" He is besieged for autographs. Reagan is not a compulsive crowd plunger, like Nelson Rockefeller, or an irrepressible hand grabber, like Lyndon Johnson. By nature he is almost reticent. At a factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights...