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Spartan Regimes. Several observers, including Aron, feel that the general mood of the Continent reflects the bias of many Western European intellectuals against bourgeois society and in favor of the spartan regimes of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. In their eyes, the democratic societies of the West, despite their manifest freedoms, are associated with political corruption, economic crises, imported American tastes (by definition bad) and American values (by definition shallow). In contrast, Communist regimes are identified with social justice, economic security, cultural integrity and a bracing measure of discipline...
...French steel industry has declared that it faces a "manifest crisis," demanding, so far unsuccessfully, that the Common Market permit controls on imports of steel from outside the nine-nation Community. The Canadian and Australian governments have already posted restrictions on textile imports. Last week the British automobile industry, with protectionist action clearly in mind, formally asked the European Economic Community to investigate charges that Japanese cars are being "dumped" in Britain. In the U.S., the United Automobile Workers union is trying to document a suspicion that Volkswagen Rabbits are being dumped in America...
...good many English liberals, somehow overlooking this appalling record, have been captivated by Mr. Lee's fluency, his intelligence, his manifest stature as an international statesman...
Adams begins his tale with an epigraph from Jung: "Superstition and accident manifest the will of God." Perhaps, but not here. The author spins out his romance entertainingly, but without dealing seriously with the questions he raises: of belief and its perversion, of authority and its corruption. Good as he is at nature walks, Adams does not venture far into the forests of the mind...
...CURRENT impasse in the Middle East will not easily be broken. That there is no military solution in the area is manifest. That the future of shuttle diplomacy is at best dubious is also clear. Those who regard the existence of a strong and thriving Israel as an absolute necessity are compelled to search for a way to break the deadlock, particularly before Israel is again forced to sacrifice thousands. To retain a narrow field of vision and rely solely on the United States and on military strength would be both a dangerous and unrealistic policy for Israel to pursue...