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Grave Decadence. That was the case in the capitals of the so-called Third World. From New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan angrily cabled the State Department that he had assured Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the CIA had not been involved in the Chilean coup. Now, he said, she wondered whether India might not be next. Many Latin Americans shrugged; the episode seemed to confirm their suspicions that the CIA invariably is behind the continent's frequent upheavals?political and otherwise...
Your special issue of Aug. 19 says that I, "like so many others in the Administration, drifted away (Moynihan went off to an ambassadorship in New Delhi after his pet programs were gutted ...)." This makes it sound as if I took this post as a retirement job, or something such. It is not at all the case, and the statement is less than complimentary to the government to which I am accredited...
Daniel P. Moynihan...
...Political Scientist Daniel Moynihan described them, "Suddenly a new social class was created in the U.S., so large in its number that it was fundamentally isolated from the rest of society ... At every level there emerged a sense that 'we are alone and separate from them.' " This generation is now largely in its twenties. As its members continue to marry, by 1980 the number of U.S. households will rise to at least 77 million (from 63 million in year 1970). Unlike members of the cohort before them, who had fewer contemporaries with whom to compete, the baby-boom...
...narrow and meanspirited. Acutely conscious that middle-and low-income whites alike were resentful of the special efforts that were being made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue had been "too much talked about" but also that other minorities (Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans) were not getting enough attention...