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...sword of annihilation is ever to be removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
...Dalai Lama was still too young to govern, and his state was run for him by regents. Two of them quarreled, and Lhasa was rocked by a brief civil war in 1947, in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was another civil war: that in China. As Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven from the mainland to Formosa, it was inevitable that the Reds would soon attempt to assert the Chinese suzerainty that had been largely ineffectual for nearly 40 years...
...lose its cultural identity and its Spanish language-"would become only a whiff of vermouth in the martini instead of the olive." Statehood's proponents argue that it would give Puerto Rico six or seven Congressmen and two Senators, a voice in making federal laws and decisions that govern the island's fate, and would end the pervasive feeling that Puerto Ricans are really only second-class citizens...
...Accept." The West was talking about a foreign ministers' conference on Germany for May n, he said with a grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such...
...twice-weekly meetings with the prince, Dr. Koizumi often read aloud from Harold Nicolson's biography King George the Fifth, for, like many Japanese liberals, he feels that the imperial family must reign, but not govern, much in the manner of the British royal family. The prince proved especially fond of anecdotes detailing the homely, comfortable existence of Britain's rulers-such passages as "King George preferred a quiet evening at home, when he could read aloud to the Queen...