Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Expert Marshall Shulman predicted that the Soviet Union would not intervene to punish China. Said Shulman: "If [the war] remains essentially at roughly the same scale, it seems to us not likely that the Soviet Union will respond on the Sino-Soviet border." Others close to the President are less sanguine, worrying that the longer the Chinese-Vietnamese conflict goes on, the more likely some Russian action becomes...
...closest aides said last week. "But obviously, we should be saying it differently." Concludes a Washington foreign policy analyst: "The whole post-World War ΙΙ era is crumbling. The international rules are such that any small country, or even any band of terrorists, can do more or less what it wants, and given the decline in the ability of the great powers to intervene, there is really nothing that we or anybody else can do about...
...discussion under way. Church, Javits and Glenn then began talking of a compromise. Their solution: the U.S. "will maintain its capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion" against Taiwan, and will provide the island with "a sufficient self-defense character." This was something less than a defense commitment to Taiwan, but the Carter Administration had originally sought no specific reference to Taiwan's defense...
What was it with these people? They were all intelligent, potentially competent, as honest as the next guy. They had probably all entered Government service with enthusiasm and dedication. But somewhere along the line they had all settled for far less than expected-and some had virtually embraced incompetence. The odd thing was that most took no joy in their malfeasance. A few delighted in petty corruption, but most were frustrated and dissatisfied. They felt that theirs was the only rational course open, that the system demanded incompetence...
Harvard administrators reacted with less enthusiasm, and Withington received a call from the dean's office. "There was nothing Harvard could do to me," he said. "It was perfectly harmless and wholesome--like stealing underwear from Radcliffe and tying it to a flagpole in Harvard Square," he added...