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...guided Britain's successful twelve-year war against the Communist guerrillas in Malaya, an immediate withdrawal by the U.S. would lead to "drastic realignments of policy, certainly in Southeast Asia, probably in Africa, and possibly even in Latin America." Among America's stauncher allies in the Far East, the Nationalist Chinese would be aghast, the South Koreans distressed and the Japanese politely uncomfortable; all three nations are eager to see the end, but a hasty retreat would give them cause to worry about the validity of U.S. promises. On the other hand, the U.S. will presumably maintain enough...
There is, of course, little likelihood that Moscow will allow Czechoslovakia to return to the liberalizing route charted by Dubcek before the Russian invasion of 1968. The oppressive days of Novotny, on the other hand, suddenly do not seem quite so distant. A nationalist at heart, Husak may very well try to steer a middle course, but for the time being the ultraconservatives, backed by the country's Soviet occupiers, are dominant. Late last month, they engineered the firing of 29 liberals and moderates from key posts in the government and party. Last week they claimed a host...
...seemed the ideal man to continue the white supremacist ways of his predecessors-Johannes Strijdom, Daniel Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd. Grim and humorless, he had served five years as Minister of Justice and took credit for some of South Africa's harshest apartheid laws. To the ruling Nationalist Party, he was a hero, dedicated to preserving its policy of strict color separation. It is little short of amazing, then, that Vorster should now be under attack by Nationalist right-wingers as a dangerous liberal...
...Hertzog-and to a significant number of other Afrikaners-Vorster has broken the rules. He has not violated basic attitudes, in their view, because he still believes devoutly in apartheid. But Hertzog and his followers accuse the Prime Minister of "weak, vacillating and opportunistic leadership, resulting in the Nationalist Party being ripped from stem to stern...
...will be 70 nonwhites to every white in South Africa. Even today, white South Africans total only 3,600,000, compared with 13 million blacks and 1,800,000 half-castes, or "Coloreds." To add to his sins, Vorster has tried to lure English-speaking South Africans into the Nationalist Party...