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Despite the staggering amount of matter written in recent years about civil rights and the American Negro, it is appalling how scant the knowledge of Negro history is among the white portion of our society. But it is just as true that the Negroes themselves are by and large woefully ignorant of their own past and of the many important figures who have dotted it ever since the birth in James-town during 1624 of William Tucker, the first Negro child born in the United States. Part of the blame for this general ignorance can be squarely laid...
...KOREA. Stalin thought that the southern half of the divided country-a scant 120 miles from Japan-was ripe for plucking in 1950. Truman's decision to intervene, with United Nations support, frustrated that attempt. While Korea was no victory for the U.S., the stalemate that resulted prevented the Russians from achieving their original objective...
...VIET NAM. Though the U.S. is deeply and painfully embroiled in Viet Nam, the Southeast Asian war has yielded scant prospect of benefit for Moscow either. Kosygin and Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev, reversing Khrushchev's policy of noninvolvement in Southeast Asia, began aiding Hanoi early in 1965, when a Viet Cong victory seemed imminent. Large-scale U.S. intervention thwarted their hopes of a quick, cheap victory and exposed Russia to the charge that it will retreat from its involvement in any war of national liberation if the stakes get too high...
Russian leaders are torn between the two policies. As a result, Russia has made scant headway along either course. Certainly, the Soviets' client states have grown increasingly skeptical of Moscow's interest in their cherished "wars of liberation." By contrast, the overwhelming U.S. commitment to South Viet Nam has persuaded many nations in Asia and elsewhere that Washington is willing to support its commitments...
...attitude of many older Germans when it called the student protests "a declaration of war against society." Other observers, however, applaud the youthful activities. They see it all as a fitting reaction to the authoritarianism that is still prevalent on German campuses. They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition in Bonn...