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John Morton Blum, the Yale professor who co-chaired the committee that recommended the trimester year and a member of the Harvard Corporation, said yesterday that the proposals are designed in part to alleviate Yale's current financial problems. The trimester proposal would probably increase the student body from 4800 to about 5300, providing Yale with substantially more income from tuitions, he said...
...Blum predicted that the pilot summer program next year will include several hundred students and should show "where the bugs are" in the three-term plan. 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend Yale during the summer term after 1975, Blum said...
...faculty will also consider a recommendation that undergraduates be required to spend at least one summer term at Yale. Blum said that this requirement would ensure that Yale has enough students for the summer term...
...Blum stumbles across the real reason for the continued failure of negotiations when he recognizes the issue of "the United States' right to maintain a controlling interest in Saigon's political and military apparatus." This "misunderstanding" is of course what the war has been about since the beginning U.S. intervention in the early fifties. Nixon has apparently not given up the goal of American hegemony in Indochina. It is the intransigence of him and other members of the U.S. political elite that have scuttled the prospects for peace settlements from 1954 onwards...
Note: In the second paragraph of my article, these words--"that they cannot use unfair negotiating tactics to gain a disguised form of victory' ever the United States"--were mistakenly omitted. Jim Blum...