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This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era was among the first major published analyses by an American expert on the insurgency in Indochina. In addition to tracing the Chinese influence on the Vietminh cadres and the French military response, the book describes the organization, logistics, and tactics of the communist movement. The author, George Tanham, managed the U.S. rural development program in South Vietnam and later served as special assistant for counterinsurgency at the U.S. Embassy in Thailand during the mid-1960s. With a new

According to the author, in Indonesia Islam is ever-present, but it plays little role in political affairs. The two post-independence Indonesian governments, under Sukarno and Suharto, have deliberately tried to exclude Islamic influence from both domestic politics and foreign affairs. He examines the role of Islam in this country and how the government's domestic policy toward Islam is reflected in its foreign policy. (DÜI-Sen)

This paper outlines the new and active Soviet efforts in the South Pacific. These include better informed and smoother diplomats, cultural exchanges, trade missions, and the projecting of an image of a peace-loving nation with no military forces in the area and a strong anti-nuclear position. How much effect this campaign will have on the peoples of the area is not clear though some of the elites, i.e., teachers, union leaders, and church leaders seem to espouse at least part of the anti-Western position. (International Political Science Association)