Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps a better lesson is that a fraction of the $2 billion in aid now being offered to Vietnam, a handful of the gestures of reform now being made, would have sufficed several years ago to turn this revolution into something very different...
...candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct enough to hold the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) minority, yet independent enough to appeal to reform Democrats...
...promises of social reform and a vigorous attack on corruption, coupled with the recent allied successes against the Viet Cong, have so far kept the nation's fractious Buddhists and Catholics quiescent: they simply cannot find credible grievances that will bring crowds into the street. Even though the Ky government has made no dent in the nation's two big problems-its 680,000 refugees and its soaring inflation-Saigon's political situation, say old hands, is the most stable that it has been since 1960. From time to time, there are complaints that...
...only beginning is that battles themselves are only the beginning. When the shooting stops, some sort of Vietnamese authority, ideally local police, must be ready to move in at once to keep the hamlet secure from the V.C. After security, the needs multiply: reconstruction of the local economy, land reform, better food and medical care, schools, the beginnings of justice. "In order to win," in the long run, says Ky, "there must be a full social revolution in Viet Nam-our revolution, no one else can do it for us." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge agrees, and a large part...
...precisely these weaker nations that may sometimes need more help than Alianza aid or other good works to thwart Communist aggression. "In my experience," concluded Mann, "the men who have contributed most to the social, economic and political reform in this hemisphere are men who have understood that the Communist danger is not met by good works alone...