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...past two decades, since Mao Tse-tung seized control of nearly one-quarter of the human race, the U.S. has done its best to quarantine Communist China. The policy began with nonrecognition, based partly on moral disapproval of the Communist takeover. It was later stiffened with "containment," a strategy designed both to weaken the regime and to keep the Chinese from overrunning their neighbors. Despite a long tradition of U.S. sympathy for China, most Americans have regarded the quarantine as all the more prudent since China exploded its first nuclear device...
...contrasting theory, of course, holds that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam has demonstrated that "wars of liberation" cannot succeed cheaply and has stiffened anti-Communist sentiment along China's rim. Some U.S. officials believe that a new U.S. policy would vitiate these benefits by handing Mao a "success" against the U.S. and seeming to signal a lessening of American firmness throughout Asia. Advocates against change also argue that a softer U.S. line would help Maoism recover from its self-inflicted domestic wounds, and would eventually lead the U.S. to break its commitment to Taiwan...
...take exception to your qualification of Bolivia's army as "ineffectual." If effectiveness is the capacity to perform specific tasks, it is well to remember that the Bolivian army successfully and speedily dealt with the guerrillas organized by the infamous Che Guevara, who was considered, together with Chairman Mao and General Giap, the supreme specialist in that kind of warfare. If the U.S. Army, with its fantastically superior might, had been proportionately as successful in dealing with the Communist threat in Southeast Asia, I am sure you wouldn't have thought of calling it ineffectual...
...Mao, Lin, Chou, Chen Pota and Kang Sheng...
...Budget Director Robert Mayo must endure a new nickname around Washington. Recently he briefed newsmen and legislators on the President's fiscal policies. A local television station carried the report, but in a fit of homonymous confusion a TV technician flashed a picture of Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Now the Budget Director's unofficial title is "Mr. Chairman" Mayo...