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...since the Iron Curtain clanged down across Europe and the pattern of postwar alliances was forged by the U.S. and Russia has the Old World seen such a flurry of political cross-pollination, of intra-alliance flux. After 20 years of rigid cold-war separatism, East and West Europeans are talking again...
Dressed Like Women. More than most churchly organizations, the brothers' groups have good reason to reconsider their rules in the light of the Second Vatican Council. A majority of the congregations are less than two centuries old, and their constitutions generally reflect the rigid piety of the Council of Trent more than the counsels of Christ. The Brothers of the Christian Schools are constitutionally forbidden to accept girls into their schools or teach in institutions not run by the congregation. They must give absolute obedience to their superiors, and until recently spiritual training in the brotherhoods operated...
...Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from east China to the barren northwest in 1934-35. They are afflicted with the "Yenan complex"-a belief in absolute, rigid adherence to the methods by which they survived and ultimately attained power. There are some among the Chinese leadership who clearly have doubts about the present course of Chinese policy, which is leading to a growing isolation of China; most of them are among the "new generation" that is faced...
There was plenty of Maoist presence in the continuing purge of "pragmatic" intellectuals and administrators that began two weeks ago with the downfall of Poet-Scientist Kuo Mojo (TIME, May 13). Latest victim of the "rectification campaign" aimed at restoring rigid Mao-think is Teng To, a sometime litterateur and secretary of the Peking municipal party organization. Also missing from public view and mention: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, an upper-echelon Politburo member who was long regarded as a contender for Mao's chair when he dies. Peng's top adversary is Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...attacks Dean Rusk's myopic vision" and alleges that President Johnson's decision to transfer the responsibility for multi-agency foreign operations from the White House basement to the State Department Secretariat represents an "abdication of presidential perspective." It's too bad he neglects to mention that today the rigid White House perspective on foreign affairs, especially toward Vietnam, seems identical with that of the State Department. Coordination of the White House with the State Department has improved markedly since Johnson became President--but maybe that's part of the trouble in the first place...