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...complete social and economic equality for a nation's citizens is better than one of inequality. The United States monstrously violated this value system in Indochina, lining up squarely and brutally on the wrong side of all three criteria. All the Indochinese liberation movements seemed to uphold and sustain these same values; they were firmly in the right. Although information about the NLF and especially the Khmer Rouge has always been sketchy, there has been a lot to know--years of daily horror stories, broad ones of policy and small ones of people--about the American presence. One could only...
...feel that it is the duty of the Government, led by the President, not only to sustain the American people but to act, as guide and protector for as much of the world as our influence can be made to reach. This requires huge conglomerations of federal employees...
Ford exploited his advantage. Knowing instinctively which legislators to approach and which to avoid, he got on the phone and requested their help to sustain his vetoes...
...diplomatic and economic quarantine of Cuba by the Organization of American States has been tough to sustain-and equally tough to get off the books. Last year, before a meeting of OAS foreign ministers in Quito, it seemed like a good bet that delegates of pro-Cuba countries had rounded up the two-thirds majority needed to vote out the ten-year-old embargo, which now throws only a very tattered curtain around Castro's island. Much to everyone's surprise, the anti-embargo forces fell two votes short, chiefly because the U.S. delegation took a studied attitude...
...there is no escaping the fact that leaders of capitalist economies must use every available resource to figure out the amounts of vital commodities that their industries will need to sustain strong growth. They will have to calculate where the supplies are likely to come from, what exploration, research and development investments will be required to produce them, what conservation steps and recycling programs may be necessary to stretch supplies, and what materials might be used as substitutes in a pinch. The tough question: Just who is to decide...