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Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...
...Brezhnev or a Mao, and the typical Arab has little enthusiasm for tinkering with changes himself. A famous Arab expression is "Bookrah fil mishmish," which means that the apricots will be blooming tomorrow; it indicates a mahana attitude rivaling that of even Latin Americans. In such a culture, Communism has slim chance of succeeding. Understanding this, the Soviet Union up to now has been willing to sacrifice one Arab Communist Party after an- other in return for broader geopolitical gains. It is a cynical tradeoff, but given the attitudes of the Arab world, it is the only deal available...
Russian Protest. The executions had international repercussions. The Soviets could scarcely ignore the attack on an important Middle Eastern Communist party, especially since Communism has such an uncertain hold in the area (see box). Moscow officially warned Khartoum against what it called "the impermissibility of resorting to extreme measures"-a hint that the some 1,000 East bloc technicians working in the Sudan might be recalled...
...booming market in Washington for China experts. Universities expect a surge of enrollment in courses that already bear such campus nicknames as "Chink Think" (Chinese philosophy, at Yale), "Rice Paddies" (introduction to China and Japan, at Harvard) and "What's My Line?" (China's evolution under Communism, at the University of Michigan...
...scholars' overall impact has been more significant than their squabbles. They anticipated by years the Government's change of heart-and encouraged it at least indirectly. Through articles, speeches and personal contacts, they have helped alter the official view of a decade ago, which saw Chinese communism as ruthlessly totalitarian at home and implacably expansionist abroad. According to Morton Halperin at the Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There...