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Southeast Asia, though, as it has for so long, endured a year of war, cruelty and famine. Peking and Moscow jockeyed for influence in the area. China briefly invaded Viet Nam and then withdrew, achieving nothing but proving once again that Communists have their own explosive quarrels. Hanoi's Soviet-backed rulers expelled hundreds of thousands of its ethnic Chinese citizens, many of whom drowned at sea; survivors landed on the shores of nations that could not handle such onslaughts of refugees. In Cambodia, the Vietnamese-backed regime of Heng Samrin was proving little better than the maniacal Chinese-supported...
Gradually, the nation absorbed difficult lessons about the limits of its power and resources. The unprecedented defeat of American arms in Viet Nam coincided with other descending trends: the shrinking of the dollar (gold went from $36 per oz. in 1970 to a record high of nearly $520 per oz. last week), the nation's abject dependence on an imperious OPEC for two-thirds of its oil, a failure in the nerves and muscles that used to make friends and enemies docile...
...with it, their yearning for clear-cut conclusions. In fact, the U.S. on the whole behaved with considerable virtue, facing up to crises (a lost war and a broken presidency) that might have turned other societies rabid or anarchic. The U.S. has not been at war since it left Viet Nam, and if it has not brought conclusive harmony to the Middle East, it has led Egypt and Israel to live in peace. It has, more over, the forbearing and civilized in the midst of all the Ayatullah's provocations...
...case the government would have fallen within a week." That would have cost the Russians credibility in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. 2) A "massive Russian military infusion," in which the Soviets would try to squelch the rebellion. Commented Neumann: "This option opens up the real possibility of a Soviet Viet Nam." 3) A coup to install a puppet at the head of the government in the hope that he could bring things under control...
...British soldier is going to fire a weapon-except in self-defense. We are not prepared to risk Rhodesia becoming Britain's Viet...