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...Laotian generals at the moment look to the United States for protection, seek to include their country in the American sphere. They are lining their pockets and laughing at America's pretensions of high moral purpose. Doubtles they would as readily look to North Vietnam or to China as patrons if it were not too late, if they were not sure of being dispossessed by a nationalist communist regime. Ho Chi Minh might have found "mon general's" five Mercedes a trifle excessive...
...obstacle to winning the war, to culminating our colonization of Laos, is that unlike most colonialists we are competing with a rival who has an immense psychological advantage. A comparable situation . . . the United States would not be too pleased if the Soviet Union attempted to bring Canada into its sphere of influence, but we could rest assured that we would have an edge in the competition-300 years of a common cultural heritage with Canada...
...Nixon Administration faces a dilemma over how to react to the base at Cienfuegos. An outright confrontation with the Soviet Union, in an area deep within the traditional "U.S. sphere of influence," would almost certainly rule out the advancement of top-priority Administration objectives concerning the SALT talks, the war in Viet Nam, and the stalemate in the Middle East. The U.S. seems to be resigned to the presence of Soviet naval vessels in the Caribbean, with the submarines serviced in international waters from a tender based in Cuba. But it hopes that the Soviets will not force the issue...
...sphere of Washington wives with secure social standing is very different from that of the young single girls around the capital. Inevitably, though, the two worlds sometimes touch. Among young single professionals, the male-to-female ratio is favorable, and a bright, attractive girl finds the cityscape stippled with graduate students, military officers, fledgling diplomats, congressional assistants, Foreign Service officers and acres of young lawyers. Among these groups, Washington's divorce rate is high?but not among the officeholders, who regard Splitsville as a state that can hinder their careers...
...even more surprising statements concerning the influence of the DAS and of other "international consortium" groups on the decision-making process within the Indonesian government. Earlier this fall, former DAS director Gustav Papanek said that that government was "one of the most self-assured and independent-in the economic sphere-that I know of," and added in particular that the early advice provided to the regime by the International Monetary Fund had never been pivotal in nature. But in a confidential memorandum circulated within Harvard in the fall of 1968. Papanek stated that "relations between the Indonesian government...