Word: westerners
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These improvements in the U.S. forces have made Haig "cautiously optimistic" about NATO's ability to defend Western Europe. But enormous problems remain. Despite the more integrated communications, for example, NATO's 15 members still use 15 different radio bands. This means that units of one ally cannot plug into another's tactical radio network. Completely unifying the system, however, is a project that could cost billions of dollars. Logistics, especially the resupplying of units after combat begins, is "a horrible mishmash," according to an Administration strategist. While it would be possible, in time of crisis...
...week's end, Western experts were still trying to explain the sudden burst of free expression in a society notorious for its rigidity and repression. If the poster campaign was not calculated to push forward Teng's ambitions, what then was its purpose? One answer from Sinologists was that this calculated political performance was inspired by Teng to show both the Chinese and the Western world that the outpourings of grief over Chou's death were revolutionary acts. After some of the wall posters called for an ex post facto justification...
...Amazing," said one of the 27Western journalists based anything in Peking. "Incredible," declared another. "There has never been anything like it." They were referring to last week's abrupt lowering of the invisible barriers in for years have prevented Western newsmen from engaging in serious political discussions with ordinary Chinese citizens. "Before this," said the Toronto Globe and Mail's John Fraser, "trying to get an idea of what the average man was thinking was akin to peering over garden walls. Now the veil has been pulled aside...
Everybody seemed to want to debate democracy at once. How well did it really work in the U.S. and Western Europe? Why was it that the U.S., West Germany and Japan were so advanced, while China, with a superior system of socialism, was not? And what, by the way, did the Western correspondents think was really happening at the meeting of the Chinese Politburo then in progress...
London Daily Telegraph Correspondent Nigel Wade asked another crowd, "Do you want free newspapers?" and the Chinese shouted, "Yes!" He asked, "Do you believe your own newspapers?" and they answered, "No." Wade found the Chinese especially curious about Western clothes and books, and familiar with a newly released report by Amnesty International that takes have to task on human rights. He also found that "they seem to have a pretty good fix on Jimmy Carter. The overwhelming impression they have is that he is a kind...