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Despite its progress, North Viet Nam has not become a medical Utopia. Parasitic and infectious diseases, for instance, remain major problems. However, the visitors were told that some ailments have been brought under control. Cholera, trachoma, venereal disease and leprosy have become relatively rare. Polio, which still occurs in South Viet Nam, has been all but eliminated in the North. Even more impressive has been the decline in infant mortality. The infant death rate now stands at 26 per 1,000 births, a figure that seems high by Western standards but represents tremendous progress for the North Vietnamese. When...
...godlike status. He took pains to enhance it with Little Red Books, parades and ritual. This worked so well that when Mao was forced to take the desperate step of calling out the troops, he could still pretend that the country was well on the way to a Communist Utopia...
...rhetoric with a precision that is sometimes eerie. A one-word common denominator prevails in the Nixonian America: the sense of "system." The free enterprise system, the law-and-order system, even the "family unit" system?they are the recurring images among Nixon supporters. Their antonym is "chaos," not Utopia. They are apprehensive of the disorders that the late '60s adumbrated to them, the turmoils that they suspect a McGovern accession might bring...
...office, taking its federal role with the state, had thus demonstrated an ability to pilot the university through what it has deemed to be threatening government snags. From its past performance, the University appears likely to continue despite some confusion on the federal lobbying law, downstream towards its Utopia of maximum federal funding with minimal government control. Whether it will continue to gland over the snags of increasingly unfriendly, and financially pressed, governments so easily, however, is an open question. And the issue of equal or sex-blind admissions remains unaswered
They had "heard" the answers before I had began to speak, before I had even arrived. "The North" was as unfamiliar and untenable to them as "The South" had been at Harvard. They, too, could not really listen to someone as "different" as I had become, Utopia would have to wait a few more years...