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...take charge of the Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened the Swedish mission to the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam. He stayed in Vietnam until 1974, a witness to the gradual American withdrawal. After a brief sojourn to Stockholm, Oberg was named ambassador to Thailand. Laos and Singapore--Sweden maintained one post for these three nations--where he served until last year...
...crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate the ultimate showdown-and thus lead to a gradual erosion, risking world peace as surely as a failure to face an overall challenge...
...crises the most daring course is often the safest. The riskiest course in my experience is gradual escalation that the opponent matches step by step, inevitably reaching a higher level of violence and often an inextricable stalemate...
...love story, the two lived in the same neighborhood as children, but there was little--if any--love interest before high school. ("I thought he liked my sister," Jean said. Donald, for his part, explained, "I didn't particularly like her, either.") later, however, love bloomed: "It was a gradual kind of thing. She started growing on me." By the end of Donald's junior year in high school, the two had decided to get married. The wedding came in June, 1979, after the two had spent Donald's freshman year apart...
...some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how gradual the effect of the cold. In his judgment he had no choice. When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen...