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...important thing is to bring the forms of power in the university into alignment with reality," he emphasized. "This reality is that the faculty and only the faculty can govern...
AFTER the election Mayor Lindsay had a city to govern; but he also had some 20,000 workers on his hands, now a tight and immensely devoted organization. The Mayor had to make a choice. He could let the group disband and work with a moribund Republican party during his administration, hoping that his charisma would draw his campaign workers back on to the 1969 bandwagon. But this would be a gamble against unfavorable odds. In four years time Lindsay would have made the enemies every incumbent makes and tarnished his shiny white armor. His only alternative was to nurse...
...Africa-which, after all, is the continent's most powerful nation-and concentrate instead on convincing the whites that apartheid is unnecessary. The only way to convince them, Banda suggested, is by proving that black Africans can get along well with their white neighbors-and that they can govern themselves with responsibility and stability. So far, the record of the OAS nations is hardly convincing, he said: "They practice disunity, not unity, while posing as the liberators of Africa. While they play in the orchestra of Pan Africanism, their own Romes are burning...
...know that to govern is the most difficult art of all, since it deals with the evasive nature and changeable feelings of men, who yearn to live in peace and reach at least a minimum of happiness...
...even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...