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...Russians have a powerful ally: the U.S. Government, which supports the move if only because it would like Soviet permission to depart its own overcrowded Moscow chancery for roomier quarters. On that basis, a quid pro quo is the obvious solution. The Russians find it hard to understand the delay. Said one Soviet embassy spokesman last week: "In Moscow, if the government says O.K., then...
...right they are "to think of revolution only in terms of the French Revolution," Mis Arendt says. In another quote you won't see in Time she calls "fear of revolution the hidden leitmotif of postwar American foreign policy in its desperate attempt at stabilization of the status quo, with the result that American power and prestige were used and misused to support obsolete and corrupt political regimes that long since had become the object of hatred and contempt among their own citizens...
Continued stalemate will mean continuing large-scale American financial expenditure and occasional loss of Americans. But the status quo may not last forever. As yet, said General Paul D. Harkins, head of the U.S. military assistance command in South Vietnam, the "guerrillas obviously are not being reinforced or supplied systematically from North Vietnam, china or anyplace else-they depend for weapons primarily upon whatever they can capture--many are home-made." But the North Vietnamese, even the Chinese, may step up the pressure if it looks like the southern movement will fail on its own steam. Needless to say, this...
Many of the great social injustices in this country exist not in spite of local efforts to eradicate them, but because of local efforts to maintain the comfortable status quo. At the least, the drafters of the service corps legislation should consider an NSA proposal that "The National Service Corps, without previous requests by local groups shall be able to explore and evaluate areas of need and make itself available to assist local groups in-the formulation of project requests...
Dudley Master Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr. '29 called the present regulations reasonable and necessary in view of the overcrowding in the Houses. "I think that they're pretty generous and that they work pretty well," he said. He described himself as "a status quo man" on the issue...