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there and the radical groups are likely to gain increasing strength.
P: This will be only one blip in the battle and then it will go on
and on and on and it's like everything in the period we live in isn't it
since World War II.
K: That's right, that's right.
P: Where revolution in itself, independence is a virtue which of
course it never was. That wasn't true at the time of the French revolu-
tion either and it isn't any more true today. The real question is whether
anybody can run the god-damn place.
K: That's right and of course the Bengalis have been extremely
difficult to govern throughout their history.
P: The Indians can't govern them either.
K: No, well actually the Indians who one normally would expect to
favor a breakup of Pakistan aren't SO eager for this one. Because they're
agraid that East Pakistan may in time, or East Bengal may in time have an
attraction for West Bengal with Calcutta and also that the Chinese will gain
a lot of influence there.
P: Interesting.
K: And that, I think, is a good chance.
P: Yep. Nothing in Southeast Asia of interest particularly either.
I just scanned the papers.
K: No, no, there's sporadic
P: I saw this piece by MacArthur in the Los Angeles Times.
K: That isn't so bad actually when one reads
P: I didn't read it; I just read the first
Did you read it?
K: Yeah I read it.
P: He's a pretty good writer you know. Don't you think he's a pretty
good writer?
K: Yes, and he's been writing fairly well in recent weeks about it.
It's a pretty fair assessment of Giap's strategy. It makes it pretty clear
S
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