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...former Saigon lawyer, has been chairman of the N.L.F. since 1960. His main function, however, apparently is to lend credence by his presence to the Communists' claim that the front and the P.R.G. actually are coalitions in which power is shared with nonCommunists. Mrs. Binh was the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris and is one of the movement's most visible and best-publicized representatives. But Western analysts believe that the real power in the P.R.G. is wielded by Phat, a former architect who was the N.L.F.'s vice chairman and chief theoretician...
...even if simple maintenance is not sacrificed, rent control can hurt housing quality in subtler ways. Banks are normally unwilling to lend to prospective builders in rent controlled communities. In Cambridge, there is no incentive under rent control to make capital improvements such as kitchen modernization or any major renovation. Burned buildings are left to rot; renovation simply isn't worthwhile under rent control. Even if George Sternlieb's picture of housing deterioration is somewhat exaggerated. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that rent control's discouragement of both new construction and renovation must lead to a progressive outmoding...
...Canada asking for information about learning-exchange systems. Meanwhile, Detzel and Lewis have earned praise from the educational establishment. Says B.J. Chandler, dean of Northwestern's school of education: "The formal educational system is groaning under the load put on it. We've got to lend our support to this kind of alternative...
...play, he turns to Joey, reminds him of their past creative relations, to which Joey replies. "I know. But those were in the days when you still taught. Now you spread futility, Ben." And Butley's importance lies, ultimately, in its subtle ability to lend an understanding of this perhaps too familiar academic frustration and surrender, a sympathetic view of the suicide of the mind...
...rarely took the offensive, even when his armies were numerically superior to the Japanese. General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell kept pressing Chiang to reorganize his army and be more aggressive. But Chiang had different priorities than his impatient American advisers; he felt it necessary to conserve his men and his Lend-Lease arms for use against the Communists after the Japanese surrender when, he foresaw, there would be an inescapable struggle for control...