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Economic Stability. More than a million homes have been rebuilt, and all but a hundred or so of the 561 more important bridges in the riverine delta region have been repaired. Jute exports, the prime source of foreign exchange, have also begun to flow from the ports...
...President, Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendhal, and he provided new housing for the Education and Design Schools. Under his leadership, Harvard built skyward for the first time; Pusey oversaw the completion of Leverett and Mather Houses, as well as William James Hall. The Science Center outside the Yard--scheduled for completion next fall--is the last of the building projects planned under the Pusey Administration...
...United States, the war has soaked up billions of dollars which could have rebuilt cities, fed the hungry and cured disease. The war has also destroyed the confidence of the American people in their own government...
...confidence that they can handle any attack seems well founded. Egypt can easily put commandos across the canal by helicopter and assault boat. But they probably could hold only until Israel moved up reserves; the Israelis, moreover, have the capacity to retaliate massively by knocking out Egypt's rebuilt air force and its missile defenses west of the canal. An all-out Israeli assault would surely kill some of Egypt's Russian military advisers. But the Soviets, Washington feels, are not likely to overreact for fear of a U.S. response...
...knows what form the showdown took or why Lin felt compelled to seek it. Almost certainly, Lin's fall was related to a desperate drive by leftists who rose to brief prominence during the Cultural Revolution to regain power in the party, which has been rebuilt over the past 2½ years under the military's aegis. Lin, of course, was vice chairman of the party. But was he resisting the leftists, in his role as China's Defense Minister? Or was he battling the military, in his role as a leading leftist...