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While U.S. forces may eventually be able to leave Europe, that day is not imminent simply because the Seventh Army is there, quite aside from NATO, to face and help offset Russia's 20 divisions in East Germany. To preserve equilibrium, any drastic diminution of American strength would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase in European strength. But prosperous Europe shows few signs of wanting to shoulder the burden; West Germany, for example, considers any further expansion of the Bundeswehr out of the question. Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military...
...Asia, however, is political stability and its sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology...
Treasury Secretary Fowler still insisted that "equilibrium"-an equal balance, give or take $250 million, between surplus and deficit-"remains our goal for 1966, and we mean to reach it." However, he hedged his confident earlier forecasts that the target would actually be met, calling both the price of the war and the nation's normally large trade surplus "imponderables" that could upset the calculations. Commerce Secretary John Connor sounded even gloomier. "The balance-of-payments problem is going to be with us in one form or another as far as the trained eye can see into the future...
...interest of stability. Out of this discussion emerged a new approach to the arms race under the banner of 'arms control.' The thinking was particularly hard along the banks of the Charles River, where Jerome Wiesner, Thomas C. Schelling, Henry Kissinger and others worked out the strategy of equilibrium in the nuclear age. A series of seminars and study groups at the end of the fifties culminated in a highly influential paper by Wiesner in Daedalus magazine in the winter...
...Government are much more bullish than they were a year ago. The economy is not only running close to optimum speed, but has no serious excesses and few soft spots. Says Economic Adviser Okun: "It's hard to find a time when the economy has been closer to equilibrium than it is today." Orders...