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...club life has, through the years, grown strange from Harvard life, the isolation has created a certain silliness on the part of the clubs. The rules of the club game often become more significant than the game itself. Considerable energy is spent in a kind of childish inter-club rivalry--stealing another club's legacies, breaking into a competing club's building and vandalizing the furniture...
When trouble comes, it suddenly appears onstage as a set of initials with some ill-defined, but impressive-sounding role in inter-American affairs. In reality, it does not command the power that is expected of it. But as an organ of consultation and a forum of opinion, it is far and away the handiest instrument the U.S. has for dealing with hemisphere problems...
While the roots of the inter-American system go back to 1826, when Liberator Simón Bolivar called a meeting of eight nations in Panama to write a treaty for common defense and peaceful settlement of disputes among neighbors, the OAS dates its birth to the formation of the International Union of American Republics in 1890. Political family-hood, as Bolivar envisioned it, did not arrive until 1947, when a new generation of defense-minded Americans, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, drew up a treaty for mutual protection against aggression. In 1948 in Bogota, they agreed on a charter...
...Primus Inter Pares. Brezhnev and Kosygin have done less well in foreign affairs, in which they are clearly less competent and less interested. Their primary problem, the quarrel with Peking, has hardly been softened, despite a peace-making trip by Kosygin to Red China, and the Kremlin has even less control over Eastern Europe's "satellites" than did Khrushchev in his final years. In a recent speech, Demichev went so far as to explicitly endorse the independence of every Communist state; unlike Khrushchev, the new leaders know how to keep a dignified silence in the face of Peking...
Widely regarded as a caretaker government, Khrushchev's successors have inevitably been scrutinized with gimlet eyes by Western Kremlinologists for who's on top-or likely to be. Nearly all agree that the burly Brezhnev, as party boss, is primus inter pares in a committee government including Kosygin, Podgorny, the ailing Suslov and Mikoyan-in roughly that order...