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...withdraw for one year because he had remained in University Hall. On last May 11th, he was identified by his senior tutor as a member of a picket line set up in front of University Hall. Some 400 students joined the picket line to protest the invasion of Cambodia and Harvard's refusal to act on President Pusey's declaration that striking campus workers would be paid...
...points up two important shifts in the conduct of the war, one military and the other political. Militarily, the war appears to be developing a new objective: Dividing Southeast Asia in half, split near the 17th parallel, giving the United States full control of the entire Southern region, specifically Cambodia, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The United States government, while not yet admitting such a policy, has given indications of just such a scheme...
...being prepared, camps similar to those where nearly six million Vietnamese already live, driven from their homes by "enforced urbanization." Such a forced migration is in clear violation of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, but legality is now only a plea of naivete in light of the invasions of Cambodia and Laos. Such a move, of course, would turn the Northern provinces into an area for saturation bombing and defoliation, thus militarily rendering the area useless as a base of support for the PRG and incidentally destroying the homes and lives of Vietnamese civilians...
...that this was it, the point of no return, the worst that could happen. That will no longer serve; it is clear that Nixon holds much worse in store if he is allowed to pursue his policies unchecked. Since May, the war has been steadily expanded: the destruction of Cambodia's neutralist regime and the installation of an American puppet: the invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese soldiers; the bombing of North Vietnam and the announcement of new policies which wipe out the 1968 bombing halt: the lightning raid on North Vietnamese territory; the expanded...
...South Vietnamese field commander said he expected his troops to cut off all the roads that form the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the last major supply route of the North Vietnamese to Cambodia and South Vietnam...