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...Revolutionary "wars of national liberation" cannot succeed without a solid nationalistic basis. Since nationalist revolutionaries do not take orders from China or from any other outside power, successful "wars of national liberation" do not involve a direct expansion of Chinese power, and hence do not threaten America's vital interests...
Allen S. Whiting, now a prominent State Department specialist, has concluded that at the minimum, China entered the Korean War in order "to preserve an entity identifiable as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." There is every reason to believe that if American armies again threaten to destroy a buffer state allied with China--in this case, North Vietnam--Peking will not hesitate to intervene, even at the risk of provoking American bombing of the Chinese mainland...
Initially, the Administration seemed fully aware of the relevant parallel between Korea and Vietnam; it avoided movements of troops toward the 17th parallel and other acts which might threaten the destruction of the Hanoi government. Now, however, faced with Hanoi's stubborn resistance, and in light of the Administration's mistaken belief that victory in the "test case" of Vietnam can end this type of "aggression" in this century, U.S. policy has begun to develop a logic and momentum of its own. As each escalation fails both to break Hanoi's will and to provoke China's entry, the Administration...
...years, for example, the operating budget of Philadelphia's archdiocesan secondary school system, which serves 59,000 pupils, has risen from $4,500,000 to $8,500,000. New building needs, plus the recent teacher settlement, which resulted in annual salary increases of from $300 to $1,000, threaten to create a $1,000,000 deficit in the next school year...
...back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure in the U.N. to give up its African possessions. So there was little point in making the Sahara suddenly sound attractive...