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Oscar Handlin, Adams University Professor, advocated U.S. intervention in countries threatened by communism and described citizen action against nuclear war as "useless and illusionary" at a Cambridge Forum last night...
...decision to enlist the Soviets for help was a wrenching turn for the Islamic fundamentalists who run the ruling I.R.P. The party's strict religious orientation requires its leaders to denounce atheist Communism. But the I.R.P. felt forced to act when it was unable to organize an efficient intelligence and security organization to cope with last summer's spectacular wave of assassinations of government leaders. The campaign was conducted by the Mujahe-din-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), urban guerrillas who had penetrated virtually every government institution. The small Tudeh Communist Party in Iran convinced the leaders...
Anticipating charges that they have abandoned collectivization, one of the basic tenets of Communism, Chinese agricultural officials hastily explain that the responsibility system is not really a departure from collective agriculture because the state-owned land cannot be bought or sold by the farmers. Still, China's bold new experiment is the closest thing to rural private enterprise in the Communist world, outside of Poland and Yugoslavia...
...much weight should be given to these Saudi statements is problematic. The Saudis have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and have often denounced Communism as "godless." They may merely be trying to win a consensus in favor of the Fahd plan from pro-Soviet states at an Arab summit scheduled to convene in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. Says one European diplomat in Beirut: "The Saudis want Syrian and, if possible, Libyan support, and they want Washington to realize that America is not running the only game in town. So even though they still fear the Soviets, they find...
...they left the White House. Eisenhower probably could have been elected on any platform he chose in 1952, but he and his Republican handlers relished running against the Truman "mess in Washington," and poor Adlai Stevenson, from Springfield, Ill., was not allowed to change the subject. Today that mess ("Communism, Corruption, Korea") is largely forgotten; we have seen worse. And Harry Truman has a reputation as a statesman-for the first postwar line drawing against the Soviets, the Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece; for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe; and for the founding of NATO. He was prompt...