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Harvard professors also serve the government without forsaking academia for Washington, as consultants and through various research contracts. At Harvard this has resulted in the invention of napalm in Mallinckrodt laboratory and the origination of the electronic battlefield by Professors Kaysen and Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs...
...began by covering World War II; later he watched the fighting in Korea, Palestine, Greece, India and Indochina. Last week Photographer David Douglas Duncan, 60, was back on a battlefield again. Only this time it was in Deventer, Holland, on location with Producer Joseph E. Levine's $25 million war movie A Bridge Too Far. "It was completely real, everything grindingly, crushingly normal - everything except the bullets," reported Duncan after taking pictures of Actor Robert Redford and cast recreating the 1944 Battle of Arnhem. A good assignment, then? "The greatest," answered Duncan, "because after the day's work...
...that colored people would never sit in South Africa's all-white Parliament. In the city of Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, the main business district was closed after hundreds of youths stoned shops and cars and tried to storm a police station. "It looks like a battlefield," said a police official. At Stellenbosch, roads leading to the nonwhite townships were closed by police. In Kimberley, the diamond-mining city in the center of the country, police clashed with a crowd of 700 students. In Manenburg, mobs stoned police and threatened to attack nearby white areas; the cops...
...King march as somewhat akin to a probing action by an approaching enemy. Over the past few years blacks have moved inexorably westward until they reached Western Avenue, a gritty commercial thoroughfare only a few blocks from the park. Declared Store Owner Tony Caprio, 53: "This is the battlefield. We know that if we give up the park, it's the end of the Southwest Side. The blacks aren't going...
Most surprising of all, perhaps, is what has happened to the Palestinians in Lebanon. Having swaggered into the fighting on the Moslem side for what looked like certain triumph earlier this year, the erstwhile heroes of the Arab world were suddenly being battered by Christians on the battlefield and abused in most Middle East capitals outside of Cairo...