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Peking also uses the "united front" stratagem elsewhere. Most effective example is in Indonesia, where the 2,000,000-member Partai Komunis Indonesia, the third largest Communist Party in the world (after China and Russia), dominates the streets and, through the streets, President Sukarno. Pro-Peking Communists also work hand in hand with Singapore's Barisan Socialist Party, have long since captured Japan's 10 million-member Gensuikyo, its Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist...
...Woman Order. New Orleans' haughty grandes dames scorned the occupying Union Forces, spat at the blue-coats passing in the streets. Rather than jail these indelicate flowers of Southern womanhood, Butler hit on a stratagem: any woman who insulted Union officers in the streets would be "treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." To Southerners, this "Woman Order" sounded like an invitation to rape (though no incidents developed), and the Confederacy proclaimed Butler an "outlaw" to be hanged...
Clark Kerr, president of the whole California university system, knows that the procedure for free expression will not work unless students show good faith. "Suppose a loudspeaker can be used only until 1 p.m., because its use would interfere with classes after that time," he says. "One proposed stratagem would call for a loudspeaker to be employed after 1 o'clock with perhaps 100 persons lined up to say hello or make talks." Troubleshooter Meyerson's prospect is that he will have plenty of trouble to shoot...
...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
...Pushkin, for my stratagem...