Clouds Over the Golden Horn

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While public attention is concentrated, as it has been for more than a year, on Vietnam, one tends to feel that nothing of any great importance is happening elsewhere. One crisis at a time. Even the fantastic high jinks in China seem a sideshow, though if it weren’t for the Vietnam war we would recog- nize China’s great Cultural Revolu- tion as an histori- cal crisis of the first order. Global history is not, of course, waiting passively