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...more urgent and historic mission: to put into effect 20 amendments to the constitution that are aimed at a fundamental overhaul of Yugoslavia's political and economic life. He knows his time is short, and he fears that his system of participatory and highly innovative Communism may not survive him. Thus he is seeking to revamp the governmental framework so that the country's future will depend not so much on individuals as on stable institutions designed to prevent a power struggle for dictatorship or, equally undesirable, a return to a deadening centralized bureaucracy. Tito is also seeking...
...23rd Man. Tito's new departures could have as profound an effect on the course of world Communism as his 1948 break with the Soviet-dominated Cominform and the subsequent economic innovations that have made the Yugoslav model the inspiration of East European reformers. The new measures included two main steps...
Thus, once again, a seemingly paradoxical fact was underlined: although the Soviet Union enjoys growing influence in the Arab world, there is strong and sometimes savage resistance toward local Communism. The Soviets have supplied billions in aid to "revolutionary" Arab governments. They have received lavish expressions of friendship as well as vital military facilities in return. But they have never been able to install a pro-Communist regime in the area. There are Baathist radicals in Syria and Iraq, and Socialists in Algeria, Egypt, Libya and southern Yemen. But Communists in power...
...What is happening in the Arab world," former U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Raymond Hare explains, "is not a revolution but a revulsion." It is a revulsion against foreign domination, whether cultural, economic or political -and even unsophisticated Arabs recognize that Communism is a foreign import. Arabs still dream of the time, twelve centuries ago, when their forebears dominated a vast sweep of Europe, from the banks of the Indus to the valley of the Loire. They might use Communist help in hopes of restoring that glorious past, but they are not likely to accept Communist suzerainty...
Service saw no point in fuzzing the issue by using euphemisms like "agrarian reformers" for Communists. Mao declared that his was genuine Communism. But he made a distinction that was to be lost on the West for more than two decades: his was a Chinese, "nationalist" Communism and no carbon copy of Moscow's. Mao hoped for U.S. military aid in the war against Japan. He insisted that after Japan's defeat, the U.S. and the China that he expected to influence or control must be close friends. Mao's Communists, Service decided, must be reckoned with...