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...Pax Syriana. As the 24-hour deadline passed, one of Franjieh's conditions was met when two-thirds of the 99-member Parliament agreed to ask him to step down. Still, Franjieh defiantly refused, although widespread anarchy and dangerously rising tensions increased military and political pressures on him to vacate the presidency. Meanwhile, nothing had been heard from Karami, who, ironically, had threatened to resign just before Ahdab had demanded his resignation...
...explaining why he now wants an "overall vision," Rosovsky the dean becomes Rosovsky the scholar. The Redbook, he says, was "written at a high point in American confidence, at a high point of American history. At the end of World War II, the Pax Americana was just beginning to develop, and America had an enormous amount of self-confidence. It felt it was beyond doubt the best of all possible societies." But today, he adds, "it's a different world, with a lot of confusion and self-doubt. The values of liberal education are much in question...
...three decades separating the Allied victory in Europe from the American debacle in South Viet Nam were already being viewed by some as a self-contained chapter of history, the rise and fall of the Western world's reliance upon the Pax Americana. One sign of the times was French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's announcement that France's 30th celebration of V-E day would be its last. Rather than sustain the memories of past animosities-and past alliances -Europeans should "open the way to the future and turn our thoughts to that which...
When he turned to literature, he raised travel writing to the level of art (Cities, The World of Venice), branched skillfully into history (Pax Britannica), and once turned a bespoke book on, of all things, the World Bank (The Road to Huddersfield) into one of the more memorable popular essays on economics. Yet, as Jan Morris admits in her first book, Conundrum, an autobiography about the switch from "James to Jan," James Morris regularly used to pray "Please, God, make me a girl...
Behind Rockefeller's ignominious silence on Vietnam is a more consistently hawkish record than that of any other candidate, except perhaps Nixon. The Rockefeller Brothers report of 1958, in which Nelson played a major role, was an effort to pressure the Eisenhower administration into larger arms expenditures for Pax Americana policies. The Kennedy Administration's boost in arms expenditures, development of "flexible response" for limited wars, and its more belligerent foreign policies all met with Rockefeller's approval, though he did not think Kennedy went far enough. Rockefeller was for a second try at Castro after the Bay of Pigs...