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...reason has to do partly with the fatigue of 20 years of war, partly with French colonial policy, which promoted few Vietnamese to officer rank, and partly with the flimsy framework of new nationhood. Even after the French left, there was a shortage of nearly everything needed for a good army: buildings, bases, firing ranges, leadership, esprit. Loyalties continued to go to family rather than the new nation...
...debatable. If these girls were able to live for a summer under Radcliffe rules--which, after all, are not total license--they would go away from their summer school experience with an invaluable lesson. They would have learned to use the freedom they never encountered in their own university framework...
There are new forces emerging in the Far East, Pye continued, and we must learn a new and flexible, marginal role in the power struggle. Japan and India will certainly turn from their internal revolutions to external leadership, and there is reason to believe that this groping for a framework of power distribution will not be entirely tranquil, Pye said...
China's entry into the U.N. poses some difficult questions, Pye admitted. While both the United States and Russia disagree within the framework of the U.N., China might prove a more revolutionary member and try to radically change the power structure, he said...
...their presence. "It is necessary," he said when Brezhnev finally finished, "to proceed by stages. The future lasts a long time, and blocs do not dissolve overnight. It is up to Russia to give an example of rapprochement." As to Brezhnev's demand that the West "accept a framework that guarantees European security" and recognize East Germany in the process, De Gaulle rebutted brutally: "East Germany is only an artificial creation of yours...