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...reveled in the accouterments of prosperity, still enjoyed a standard of living far more abundant than that of any other civilization. But 1967 awakened many of its citizens to the fact that conscienceless affluence can not only despoil the environment and drive a deprived underclass to the brink of rebellion; it can also pervade society with a sense of impotence and bring on the loss of unifying purpose...
...methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
...understood because it has been inexpertly explained-is to contain Communism and in the process prove to aggressors from Peking to Havana that so-called wars of liberation will not be allowed to succeed. With that in mind, the maximum immediate U.S. goal is to suppress the Viet Cong rebellion, push out the North Vietnamese invaders, preserve South Viet Nam's non-Communist status-and win solid guarantees that the situation will stay stable. The maximum Communist goal, of course, is just the opposite: throw out the Americans, depose the Thieu-Ky government, and establish a regime controlled...
...dozen flash points in two decades of cold war, non-Communists and Communists have managed to work out some let-live arrangements. Analogies are dubious because the Vietnamese situation is different from all others; for example, the South Koreans did not have to contend with an internal rebellion, and the Malayan Communists botched their own revolt. Even so, recent history has some worthwhile lessons for Viet Nam. Giving political rights to large Communist parties-as France and Italy did after World War II-does not necessarily subvert democracy. In Laos, the U.S. and other nations agreed with the Communists...
When police chased the protesters back into their dormitories, the rebellion spread to nearby Charles University. Students there held candlelight rallies, boldly protested police brutality...