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...delegates in 116 of the U.N.'s 127 missions. In 39 of the missions, diplomats either declined to respond, had no opinion or could not be reached. By more than 2 to 1-the actual vote was 53 to 24 -the remainder preferred to maintain the locus quo. The delegates who favored a relocation grouped around predictably political lines. All but one of the eight Arab diplomats who responded to TIME'S poll wanted out. Four of the five Communists who agreed to discuss the question also wanted...
Since Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic in 1949, Maxwell maintains, China has striven not to expand but to legitimize its borders. With barely a quibble, Peking negotiated border agreements accepting the postwar status quo with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia and Burma. The author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border...
...advance within a company. The law may eventually require employers to hire people on the basis of their actual skills-whether or not they have a degree. In these areas, at least, Illich may not be advocating a revolution, but simply asking society to legitimize a new status quo...
...more controls for the oil industry rather than less; recognizing that we are going to have to give up vast portions of what we consider to be our inherent rights in free, private enterprise in order to arrive at an implemented national oil policy. There is a quid pro quo for the backing of the Government and that is to accomplish certain things for the nation and not necessarily for the company itself...
...American meddling, Secretary of State William Rogers has ordered U.S. personnel in Saigon to observe "strict neutrality" during the campaigning. But in fact, the U.S. is backing Thieu. And even if the U.S. could adopt a convincing hands-off posture, such a situation would only favor the status quo -which, again, is Nguyen Van Thieu...