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...surviving. Pauker says that this chance can become a certainty if the U.S. will pick up the bills for at least a decade-not only for the regime's army, but also for an economic-aid program aimed at giving the people a stake in the status quo...
Nixon nevertheless restates his confidence in the eventual success of Vietnamization. He notes that the policy was largely forced by U.S. public opinion and was "the only policy available once we had rejected the status quo, escalation and capitulation." Unlike his foreign policy report of last year, Nixon's statement carefully avoids scolding the Soviet Union for supplying arms to Communist troops in Viet Nam. Yet the difficulty of reaching Soviet leaders was demonstrated anew on the same day that Nixon's report was released. The Soviet government attacked Vietnamization as an effort to prolong...
...nonunion contractors may now begin bidding on federal projects, but a complicating factor is the existence of "baby Davis-Bacon" laws in 37 states. Much Government-aided construction-schools, highways, hospitals-is partly state-financed, and unions will certainly try to use the state laws to preserve the status quo...
...revolutionary, Mao Tse-tung is obsessed with the knowledge that revolutionary sacrifice swiftly settles into slothful bureaucracy and the status quo, unless the people are regularly-and forcefully-stirred up. "Revolutions and children," he confided to André Malraux in 1965, "have to be trained if they are to be properly brought up ... Youth must be put to the test." Less than a year afterwards, a curious convulsion known as "the Cultural Revolution" was under...
Most judges are "ignorant and stupid," Garry said. "They have to be part of the establishment who will see to it that the status quo is perpetuated...