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...type of government that Arabs seem to feel most comfortable with is an autocratic one, preferably military. "Arab politics," comments Lebanese Political Scientist Elie Salem, "has always ridden on horseback. Salvation is expected from the army." Having saved a country, the army is loath to share power. Even if the rebellious officers had won in the Sudan two weeks ago, outside observers believe, they would soon have turned on the Communists who gave them support...
...Television. Though the center is housed in some-what seedy off-campus offices, its 18,000-volume library is outstanding. One seasoned specialist is John Stewart Service, a State Department officer purged in 1951, who testified two weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 2). Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, who advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become anathema to many younger scholars for supporting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the Johnson Administration. At the opposite pole is H. Franz Schurmann, a sociologist and historian, probably the most respected...
STANFORD has as its most prominent China scholar Mark Mancall, a widely traveled historian of Sino-Soviet relations and a dazzling teacher. Stanford's cadre also includes Political Scientist John Lewis and John Gurley, a well-thought-of older economist with Maoist sympathies. Anthropologist G. William Skinner, by poring over maps, gazetteers and economic records, correctly predicted that Mao would subdivide China's large communes into agricultural units of a more traditional size...
...UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN has just hatched the China scholar who may be closest to Richard Nixon during the coming year. In September, Political Scientist Richard H. Solomon, 34, will join Henry Kissinger's staff, fresh from his eminently germane study of how the Chinese communicate with both foreign friends and American opponents. Allen S. Whiting, a Government China watcher under Kennedy and Johnson, still advises the White House during informal meetings with Kissinger. Alexander Eckstein was a leader in organizing the study of Chinese economics; like most of his colleagues, he now believes that China's economy...
...Steiner is the most prestigious specialist in linguistics today, Noam Chomsky. Steiner, with romance in his heart and the ultimate language of poetry on his lips, approaches linguistics on his knees. Chomsky, full of crisp talk about "data handling" and "feedback," confronts language in a white smock-the scientist of semantics. "Is there, in fact, a 'linguistic science'?" Steiner asks, arguing that the new scientific dogmatism about speech ignores the "mystery" of language...