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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kahn, though a good researcher, is not a convincing commentator. He does a respectable job reporting the actual battle of The Battle for Morningside Height: he would make a good war correspondent. But instead of analyzing student rebellion with evidence extracted from the Columbia disruptions, Kahn concentrates on the battlefield action and never directly confronts the issue of student unrest itself. Why Students Rebel is not really the point of this book. Generated solely from the Columbia demonstrations, Kahn's limited commentary on general student protest is very unconvincing...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: From the Shelf The Battle for Morningside Heights | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...Heights besides the faculty. Kahn gives sketchy consideration to Harlem sentiments and only a slightly more complete account of racism within the university. The Columbia trustees are major actors before the actual conflict, then are quickly forgotten as the police move in for the bust and Kahn does his battlefield reporting. Conservative students became caricatured as mindless jocks, and moderate students are ignored...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: From the Shelf The Battle for Morningside Heights | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...American jets fly daily strikes against Communist positions in Laos. The net effect, however, has been simply to maintain the status quo; at week's end, in fact, both sides held positions similar to what they held a year ago. In Vientiane, more than 100 miles from the battlefield, news of the defeat had little impact. The capital was absorbed in celebrating an important Buddhist holiday-and high-ranking officials concentrated on their tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Battle for the Plain | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...breeding ground for the student revolt in May 1968. He could not have chosen a more agonizing time or place. After the failure of the moderate student strike in November of 1967 for smaller classes, a library, and less stringent degree requirements, the university turned from campus to battlefield...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: Profile Michel Crozier | 2/21/1970 | See Source »

Late in the week, as the 24-hour Tet cease-fire ended, there were reports of increased battlefield action, mostly in the Mekong Delta and in the north, near the Demilitarized Zone. The fighting was on a small scale, but no one in South Viet Nam was forgetting that shortly after the cease-fire expired last year, the enemy launched an offensive that lasted for 36 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Inoffensive Tet | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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