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Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
...David W. Blight, who left a junior position at Harvard last year to accept a tenure-track post at Amherst College, said that rejections such as McKay's would not be such large blows if the tenure system at the University could make appointments more quickly and easily...
...Blight said the University-wide problems were exarcerbated in Afro-Am because of its small size and unconventional fields of study...
...disappointed, but not surprised" at McKay's decision, said Blight, a personal friend of McKay's. "It would have been a big boost for the department...
...despite Blight's departure, there are no new junior faculty on the way for next academic year, professors say. They stress, however, that two visiting professors--former Civil Rights leader H. Julian Bond and Amherst scholar David W. Wills--are slated to teach in the department next year and will help round out its curriculum--at least temporarily...