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...really advising the blacks, in code language, to go and do likewise. He was asking the nearly impossible. The black has no parallel; he is neither stolid native nor willing immigrant. No historian, presidential or otherwise, can undo 300 years of social damage with the simple-minded caveat "America-Love It or Leave...
Despite their appearances of bias, it would be unfair to compare Harvard Administrator Farber with Vietnam architects and apologists, or to make any more of the analogy between his factfinding mission and previous ones than a simple caveat to the reader; a warning that the reader be wary of the implicit cultural arrogance of a four-week quest for the truth in a foreign land. Farber's own cover letter admitted that "before my departure I was not sure that my investigations abroad would yield substantially more information than I had (already) been able to compile...
There is another more substantial caveat. Despite the mistaken impression of the press and the University, the equal admissions bill would actually not have affected Harvard's undergraduate admissions at all. Staff members of the House Special Education Subcommittee insist that the equal admissions requirement was written to exempt all schools that are nominally still one sex institutions, including Harvard and Radcliffe. In supposing a federal challenge to its admissions policies where none existed. Harvard has damaged unnecessarily the chances for equal admissions progress at other colleges whose leaders may not share Mr. Bok's intention of moving voluntarily toward...
...discussing Christianity's special concern for the poor, the Pope suggests a voluntary redistribution of wealth: "The more fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others." His one caveat on individual action is a specific warning against violence; he notes the mistakes of "certain members of the church who have attempted violent and radical solutions." But his letter is an insistent demand on the Christian conscience for action. He says: "It is not enough to recall principles, state intentions, point to crying injustices and utter prophetic denunciations...
Farther west, Lang Vei was set up as an advance command post for the massive operation, code-named Dewey Canyon II.* Barely 200 yards from the border, a sign was erected: WARNING: NO U.S. PERSONNEL BEYOND THIS POINT. The caveat reflected congressional prohibition of the use of American ground troops outside South Viet Nam. One shirtless G.I., bathing in a tributary of the Pone River, which, forms the border with Laos, said with a smile: "Don't worry, this is Vietnamese water." ARVN troops, too, pulled up short of the border...