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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk of the transition period: paralysis in foreign affairs. "The current Administration," said Nixon, "is setting forth policies that will be carried forward by the next Administration." Therefore, Nixon gave his assurances that Johnson and Rusk "could speak not just for this Administration but for the nation, and that meant for the next Administration as well...
...attempt to veto the our-side-your-side formula, but they clung to some corollaries of their own-most important, their contention that they should speak for the allied delegation once talks began. The Americans regarded that as a nostalgic and unrealistic notion, and refused to believe that Saigon meant it. Thus, when the showdown came in October, the South Vietnamese and the Americans suddenly discovered that they had misunderstood each other all along. The U.S. claimed that Saigon had backed out on the bargain at the last minute; the South Vietnamese maintained that they had never agreed...
...shift? Sihanouk is determined to ensure neutral Cambodia's survival, and he expects a unified, and probably Communist government in Viet Nam in the not too distant future. Traditionally, a strong Viet Nam has always meant trouble for Cambodia, and the Prince is now swinging toward the U.S. in order to preserve a counterweight to what he sees as the coming threat from the East. Thus the kindnesses toward the eleven G.I.s, whom Sihanouk seems increasingly eager to hand over. "Their stay is too expensive," he joked last week. "I have to pay for many good lunches for them...
...facts indicate that the Governor is wrong. The basic allowance for women with two children is about $50 per week. This money is meant to cover all of a family's needs. It just isn't enough, and to keep families going at all, an informal system of extra payments has developed. These extra payments are not for luxuries: they are an essential part of a welfare recipient's income. Now the money for these payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated...
CHINA-WATCHING has always been as much art as science. In the early 20th century, China's splendid culture and baffling style convinced observers that understanding the Chinese meant first penetrating an "inscrutable" facade--empathizing with some elusive oriental essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed to fit China into the categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts...