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...society without the interference of the United States? Did the left fear the MPLA in Angola or did they recognize the right of the Angolans to choose their own leaders? It is the Moynihans of this world who are afraid, who either bluntly or cunningly protect a stable status quo rather than recognizing that the covered principles of liberal democracy oblige support of the outsiders...
...platform, written by Carter's people and approved by the candidate. It commits the nation to a foreign policy more progressive than anything seen since the international popular front of democratic forces in World War II. It says that we can no longer intervene to preserve the status quo in most of the world where, as Frank Church put it, there is no status quo; that means in Angola, Chile, and Indochina. Charter's closest advisers of foreign affairs, like Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Ball, point to the primacy of our alliance with the Social Democratic states of Western Europe...
THAT SORT OF GOVERNMENT will now emerge, whether the Communists will be allowed to officially assume some of the responsibility of government, remains to be seen. What is immediately apparent from the election results is that Italy is becoming increasingly split between those who, as "haves," defend the status quo, and those who, as "have-nots," want change. Looking at the tactics of this election campaign, and at the views expressed in its course, this schism seems to have been desired and for the most part created by the party in power, the DC. The question to be answered...
Wilson speaks only in generalities about the work of his task force. "The one thing I find impossible to understand is how anyone could justify the status quo. At present we're in the vacuous middle between strict requirements and none at all. The most useful thing to come out of these discussions is a serious debate over requirements," Wilson says, partially echoing Rosovsky. Wilson also believes, along with Rosovsky, that "there are certain areas more deserving than others of study," and that students should be introduced to them. "All courses are important but certain skills, the ability...
...fact that little more than half of the corps voted for a flexible system of punishments shows how strongly the status quo is defended by many cadets, and their elders, despite the difficulties. "An officer who sees a fellow officer commit an atrocity has an obligation to report him, even if he's a friend," says Ulmer. "If you won't do that, you have no business at West Point." Over the decades, the code has helped to make West Point what George Patton Jr. called a "holy place," an institution that Maxwell Taylor describes as "something like...