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...South Vietnam against a country which recently had to spend millions of dollars buying "Canadian wheat? China has marched it army to the borders of a country as well-befriended as India. Sihanouk, whose country has no border with China, fears its domination. Marshal Lin Pao's recent manifesto unabashedly admits China's designs on the underdeveloped world. Could a Communist Vietnam be anything but a Chinese satellite, under a government far more repressive than that of any Minh, or Kahn...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...Surprises. Heath's task was made no easier by the genuine outpouring of warmth that greeted his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. And the freshly minted Conservative statement of aims was something less than the dynamic manifesto the Tory faithful had hoped for. Its conventional mix of incentives for private enterprise and tolerance for the Welfare State brought no surprises...
...might have to do with a Soviet-style constitution calling for the usual circus elections some time in the next few years. According to this theory, Che might have been ordered to draft such a constitution as a kind of act of contrition. The document might also be a manifesto, with Che either penitently apologizing for his errors or bringing his doctrinal dispute with Cuba's Kremlin-Castro leadership into the open. Che is not the type to be easily weaned from belief in his violent revolutionary war and his grinding distaste for Cuba's Soviet-enforced position...
...style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting Léger, Le Corbusier turned out a slim, cocksure manifesto entitled Towards a New Architecture - as though he had decided to do away with all architecture that had gone before. The manifesto was as revolutionary as its basic dictum: "A house is a machine for living...