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...voluntarily and without payment, the phenomenon of their will to resist so suddenly and spectacularly revealed, gives both sides much to think about. While it may not be possible to wall and moat every village in South Viet Nam, the spirit of Hoaimy matters. In this may lie a partial answer to how to compete with the Viet Cong-perhaps even how to defeat them...
...four centuries during which Greek and Turk Cypriot had been taught to hate, fear and-finally-kill one another. The U.S., which is being accused by each side of favoring the other, cares little enough about the issues, but is being forced to ask who is right. Even a partial answer is buried deep in history...
...brothers!" Lenin crushed the revolt. By conservative estimate, 5,000,000 died in the first few years of his rule. But Lenin realized that the time had come for changes. Politically, the regime stayed as dictatorial as before, but he instituted the New Economic Policy, a right turn toward partial capitalism that gave groaning Russia a brief respite. It was to be among Lenin's last official acts, for in 1922 he was incapacitated by a series of strokes that left him paralyzed and partly speechless until he died...
...even if the World's Fair fails to fulfill its promise of "Peace through Understanding," and even if it denies so much of America, it still provides an enjoyable trip into a gaudily tinseled euphoria and a partial insight into our national character...
Maximum Trouble. The U.S. is not precisely quaking at the prospect. Cambodia already serves in effect as a refuge, staging area and partial supply line for the Viet Cong; although Sihanouk officially denies this, he unofficially promises that if he gets his way on the conference, he will then keep Cambodia from being so used. A formal tie with Red China, which he already calls "our No. 1 friend and protector," would aggravate but need not seriously affect the Vietnamese war. Besides, there is evidence that Red China does not really want a close embrace with Sihanouk, that it prefers...