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...freely predicted from the start, the Bick did not long survive the Nixon Administration. It succumbed sometime between the U.S. all-out invasion of Cambodia and Al Vellucci's all-out war on drugs-no more a mutual aid society for sinister street people, threadbare elderly, and the most violently wrenched of Harvard's children. Where this crowd has scattered is anyone's guess. Not, it seems, to Hungry Charley's, a business which draws from the wealthier strata of the Square's transients and picks up a nice proportion of Harvard undergraduates...
...vice-president of the Agricultural Development Council (ADC) since 1964. His field is agricultural economy, though he graduated from Harvard College in 1947. From '58-'64, he headed an ADC task force in Southeast Asia, which worked on developing more food products in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia...
...strike" against student leaders, who had recently renewed demands for "university autonomy" (i.e., that the Saigon authorities stop meddling with student activities in university buildings). Several were arrested and severely tortured. The student body responded with another wave of protests. Demonstrators poured into the streets. Then, the invasion of Cambodia sparked an escalation of the struggle; the students, demanding that the government condemn the Lon Nol regime's pogroms of Vietnamese in Cambodia, "liberated" the empty Cambodian embassy in Saigon. Militant peace banners ("We want peace, not solutions") appeared with increasing frequency during the mass protest marches...
Well, as I understand it, for the last couple of years the main American policy has been to try to destroy the rural structures that were the basis for Vietnamese revolution. And the same in Laos and I suppose the same in Thailand and Cambodia. And they have succeeded in that to a significant extent- the destruction of rural society is very extensive and you can see it just in the refugee figures. The fact that Saigon has three and a half million people instead of the 500,000 that it had 10 years ago is an indication...
...think just Cambodia alone is an example of the effectiveness of the student movement. I'm sure they had much bigger plans for a large-scale invasion and a permanent occupation. Instead, they're down to just sending the Saigon air force and carrying out an aerial bombardment, which is not very nice but it's better than it might have been. And I think this kind of pressure can win partial victories...