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...Communists, while energetically pushing Chiang into the sea, exacerbated and then inherited all his problems in controlling the locals. As guerrillas, the Communists had spent their lives ripping bits of China away from central government control. But after winning in 1949 the new Peking leadership had to rein in all their local comrades-some of whom, like the Cantonese, had been isolated for years fighting deep behind Nationalist and Japanese lines...
Banfield rejects community action by quoting Marris and Rein ("Dilemmas of Social Reform"): "... the reforms had not evolved any reliable solutions." It is unfortunate that he did not go three sentences further to: "... at least in these five years community action developed a range of skills, concepts, organizations, models of action, which equipped the search with much more sophisticated means...
Nixon has good reason to be hopeful that the Federal Reserve may soon begin to loosen its rein on the nation's money supply and credit. Presidential Counselor Arthur Burns, who was sworn in last week as Reserve Board chairman to succeed William McChesney Martin, has been the chief Administration advocate of stringent federal economies. Reason: he feels that monetary policy has been bearing too much of the burden in combatting inflation...
...Environment section is edited by Robert Shnayerson, written by Philip Herrera and researched by Nancy Williams, with frequent guest-writing stints by Oliver Moore. Correspondents Richard Saltonstall and Rich Rein both specialize in Environment stories...
...political settlement with Israel on the basis of the U.S. peace plan rejected by Egypt and the Soviet Union. But the Arab guerrillas and the Palestinian majority in his country would almost certainly depose him if he pursued such a course. On Nasser's advice. Lebanon granted freer rein to the guerrillas operating within its boundaries-and now may regret that decision. Last week, increased fedayeen activity brought sharp Israeli retaliation, including the seizure of 21 hostages from Lebanon in response to the kidnaping of one Israeli...