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Diplomatic Game. Nixon's new policy is a direct shift away from the cold war rigidity and messianism of the 1950s and early 1960s?an ideological policy based upon a national agreement that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price?for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than...
...Paris experience, in fact, that turned Ho against France. His brief, futile efforts on behalf of Vietnamese independence at the Versailles Peace Conference led him past socialism, which promised much for Asians but actually did nothing, to Communism. In December 1920, attracted by the professed ideals of the Russian Revolution, he became a founding member of the French Communist Party...
...leaking boat of his presidency. The Vietnamese have a highly developed sense of pride, and if it seems to them that the Americans are attempting at this late date to abandon them, they could easily unite as never before behind an anti-Americanism far more virulent than any anti-Communism they ever felt...
...first of his countrymen to reveal the linkages of local corruption in any hardnosed way, while debunking Sicilian outlaw mythology. Rosi shows what really happened to the legendary Guihano after World War II, when he was paid by the Mafia to attack growing native Communism, and then was himself assassinated. Rosi was not interested in the emotional dynamics of the situation, only in the political case at hand, making his film subtly innovative. He stuck to the twisting logic of his subject matter, reconstructing actual battles and trials, filming the desolate Sicilian hills and irrationally winding cities with piercing black...
...UNDERGRADUATE here in the early fifties, Steiner was active in Democratic party politics and firmly opposed Joseph McCarthy's brand of hysterical anti-Communism that then raged in the nation...