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...African and other Asian nations send delegations here to see what makes Malaysia tick. If democracy has a show window in the East, this (with Singapore) is it. Do we want to throw these countries to the wolves? Confronted with a choice of evils, the wise man chooses the lesser; that's what we have to do in Viet Nam. But let's not forget, as we make our choice, that the lives of the most successful democracies in Southeast Asia hang on our decision. PAUL PEACH Professor Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur...
...centuries, countless thinkers have denounced patriotic pride for one of its unhappiest effects: the irrational hatred that one people aims at a "lesser" people. Arnold Toynbee attributes the death of Greco-Roman civilization to patriotic wars between city states-and failure to establish international law. Early Christians rejected patriotism on the ground that man's obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth...
...United States, law and order protects those who conduct, support, and profit from a war that more and more of us regard as atrociously cruel and strategically stupid. It protects the right of Dow Chemical and similar groups to recruit students for this general purpose. To a vastly lesser extent it also protects those of us who feel outraged by this situation. In effect we are told that we may protest as much as we like--as long as our protest remains ineffective or aims at token reforms such as limiting the bombing in Vietnam to "selected targets" that have...
...principality by tunnel with France, but those announcements could have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop for tax-free bargains...
Ironically, as the number of Oriental string players rises, the decline in America is becoming more acute. Nearly every major U.S. orchestra is starved for accomplished stringmen, and the famine is even more apparent in lesser orchestras. So bereft is the great Cleveland Orchestra that it was obliged recently to advertise in the New York Times for violinists, violists and cellists, offering a 52-week season, minimum salaries of $12,480, four-week vacations, pensions, sick leave, medical insurance and other fringe benefits...