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Forced Choice. Sorely in need of Russian aid but living next door to Red China, Ho Chi Minh had long managed an agile course between Moscow and Peking. But last year, faced with lining up behind Moscow and signing the nuclear test-ban or following Peking in rejecting it, Ho reluctantly fell in with the Chinese-whereupon the Russians chopped off most of his aid. The decision made Ho's own pro-Chinese faction more aggressive...
...becoming ideological weapons with which the opponents could assault each other. Traditionally, the victor has been the advocate of a conservative hard line, the position from which Stalin defeated Trotsky and Khrushchev upset Malenkov. But would a hard-line candidate attempt to oust an opponent by breaking the nuclear test-ban treaty or, ultimately, starting a nuclear war to prove that Communist civilization could be built on the rubble of the old order? It is more likely that, following Khrushchev's example, the hard liner would only talk about...
...heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...
...With massive U.S. help, the economies of most free-world countries have been immensely strengthened, thereby increasing their sense of independence. At the same time, troubles behind the Iron Curtain forced Russia to relax some of its old, cold-war positions. Then, last August, came the signing of the test-ban treaty, which put a big exclamation point after the fact that the cold war was no longer the same cold war, in which everyone knew the rules. While the basic issues of that war remain, and the U.S. denies that there is a real detente, the pressures that bound...
...Disaffections. France is the most obvious-and dramatic-example. In seeking to regain the glory that was France, Charles de Gaulle has refused to sign the test-ban treaty, rejected the U.S. plan for a multilateral nuclear force in Europe, kept Britain out of the Common Market, undermined the U.S. effort in South Viet Nam by arguing that the country should be neutralized, recognized Red China. Last week he tipped three more bowls of hot porridge into the U.S. lap. In a single busy day, France moved toward a major new economic agreement with Russia, hinted that it might torpedo...