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...this amounts to a subtle but important shift in the post-Viet Nam world. In Southeast Asia, an altered tripolar balance is forming. The U.S. clearly wants to maintain a strong presence in the Pacific. China will try to strengthen its position by creating diplomatic ties with the ASEAN countries, while paradoxically keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts...
...black people and the teaching of Afro-American Studies. If set up properly, the institute will attract top-quality black graduate students and professors, alleviating a shortage at Harvard that is now shameful. It will establish Harvard as a leader in the field of Afro-American Studies and strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department with an excellent research facility...
...which he is a Minister Without Portfolio, until the newspaper was allowed to resume publication. His vow raised the threat that the Socialists, who won 38% in the last elections but hold no real power under the present system, might walk out of the military-dominated government and thereby strengthen the hold of the radicals...
...Charlotte, N.C. But when members of the North Carolina congressional delegation praised the rescue, the keyed-up crowd of more than 50,000 cheered and whistled. Ford was also buoyed by the growing belief among liberals in Congress that in the aftermath of Indochina's collapse, they must strengthen Ford's hand by supporting his foreign policy...
...political unawareness." Increasingly, the firebrands of the M.F.A., declaring that the choice for the nation is between "electoralism or revolution," are choking off all options for Portugal but one: a crisis in which the Revolutionary Council would ban all political parties, thereby leaving the Communists in a position to strengthen their present footholds of power. After three days of almost continuous meetings on the Republica crisis, the Revolutionary Council pooh-poohed the Socialist reaction as "out of proportion to the incident," then warned, "The defense of liberty is not exclusively in the hands of any one political party but rather...