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...Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby Kennedy, McNamara gave hopeful credence to a rumor that had originated in Berlin, to the effect that the Russians might withdraw five of their 20 divisions in return for a quid pro quo by the U.S. "Would we be willing to lessen our presence in Europe and perhaps make some changes in NATO?" asked Kennedy. Said McNamara: "The direct answer to your question...
Asians are villagers, and the village always bowed before the procession of imperial powers as before natural forces -taxed, conscripted, pillaged but holding fast to the status quo by totem and taboo. Karl Marx sneered at "these idyllic village communities" as stagnant and "subjugating man to external circumstances...
SHAPE to Brussels. Thus far, Europe's East-West exchanges are more a faint patina than a deep-running break in postwar patterns and allegiances. But they are a part of the stirrings of nationalism and independence, a reflection of the willingness to re-examine the status quo that is inevitably having its effect on the twin military blocs facing off in Europe: NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries...
Organized labor won the New Deal's blessings as the innovative counterforce to the entrenched power of big industry; as both sides have matured, however, it is big labor that has become the more resistant to internal change. A demonstration of unionism's adherence to the status quo came last week from the United Automobile Workers, which convened in Long Beach, Calif., and ritualistically bestowed on Walter Philip Reuther, 58, an eleventh two-year term as its president. By acclamation, of course...
...roots of the trouble went far deeper-to the core of the Catholic Church in Spain. Involved is a struggle between a rising new generation of social-minded priests and the elderly, hidebound church hierarchy bent on maintaining a cautious and comfortable status quo. Over the years the Spanish church-in the pay and shadow of the Franco government-has drifted out of touch with almost everything it stands for. Its religion has become one that is imposed rather than preached. "We must identify ourselves with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem...