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...voted to make it an extracurricular activity and then it voted that what it had meant at the first meeting was that ROTC should be abolished. This spring he Faculty went through a similar experience. After the student vote to strike in the wake of President Nixon's Cambodian invasion, the Faculty voted to permit students to put off work until the Fall to permit them to engage in political activity. It met a week later and changed its mind, voting a system of optional pass-fail or credit grades for courses...
...plan is an outgrowth of open meetings held in the aftermath of the Cambodian invasion and Kent State slayings to decide upon means and tactics for politicizing the traditional ceremonies. Other plans now include the wearing of strike armbands in the formal proceedings, and a possible walkout by SDS members...
Over the past two years, efforts to improve ARVN have produced steady, gradual progress, though no one claims any miracles. Reports TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, "Certainly compared with a ragtag Cambodian army and a Communist enemy that has been for the most part desperately eluding and evading, ARVN has taken on a new and refreshing look. But ARVN has changed only by comparison. By any measure, it has not suddenly changed from a marginally efficient overall force to a superarmy...
...many areas, however, ARVN's progress is still disappointing, and not even the intense euphoria of the Cambodian excursion can overcome low pay, corruption and lackluster leadership. True, U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird began hinting last week that "the success of Vietnamization" could permit a speedup in U.S. withdrawal plans; instead of pulling out 150,000 troops by next spring, as President Nixon announced in April, the U.S. might bring home as many as 195,000. But the fact is that Vietnamization is six months behind in some respects. A high-command reorganization that was supposed to root...
...love the fight," Tri says. Pursuing the fight on a typical day last week, Tri covered more than 250 miles by helicopter, ranging from his III Corps headquarters at Bien Hoa to the huge Cambodian rubber plantation at Chup. For Tri, the day ended at 6:30 p.m., when he returned to his spacious family villa at Bien Hoa, 15 miles from Saigon, to relax with his wife, his six children and his swimming pool. Next morning at 7:30, he boarded a waiting helicopter with all the aplomb of a commuter headed for another day at the office-except...