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...architects of the Alliance for Progress is on his way out of Washington. He is Teodoro Moscoso, 53, the Puerto Rican businessman who helped mold the Alianza as its first U.S. coordinator. Last December Moscoso was moved out of the top job in President Johnson's general reshuffling of Latin American policymakers. Last week it was announced that he is resigning as a special adviser and U.S. representative to the new Inter-American committee (CIAP) that is supposed to guide the program. Wrote Johnson: "It is with the greatest regret that I accept the resignation of this able...
...Where glistening head and neck had once bent yearningly seaward, there was only a jagged hole. As news of the deed spread through Copenhagen, Danes by the thousands came to stand and grieve along the waterfront. City officials assured Danes that Sculptor Edvard Eriksen's 50-year-old mold had been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid is immortal, a creature of foam...
...fact the U.S. has established the conditions of the present struggle. If it prefers the Soviet position, the administration should realize it has made that position feasible by sustaining diplomatic contact and encouraging the possibilities of cultural and economic contact as well. Similarly, the U.S. has helped mold the Chinese attitude by positioning the Seventh Fleet off China's shores, financing the soldiers on Taiwan, and struggling to maintain military footholds on the fringes of China, in what Senator Morse calls "as futile an effort as this country will ever embark upon...
There is little point in mourning Goulart. He was a fiercely independent leftist prepared to sacrifice democracy for the power to mold the reforms he felt his country needed in order to survive. He did hate the United States; if an allegiant rather than an independent world is the U.S. aim, the State Department should be glad to see him go. But there is even less point in glorifying the coalition that has replaced him: it is opposed to meaningful reform, and it remains to be seen whether it will stand so religiously beside democracy when democracy promises to vote...
Plainly, Lyndon Johnson has been working hard to mold himself into a winning image for election day 1964. And never has he been so hard at it as he was during a chatty, 60-minute, nationwide television interview last week...