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...high altitude training in Gunisson, Col., the crew wrote letters to other members of the U.S. team explaining their position and urging them to think over the issues...
...Major Boris Martinez, who is the commander of Chiriqui province military zone. At their bidding one evening last week, their brother officers quietly dispatched units from the 3,900-man force to shoo civilians off the streets of the country's two main cities, Panama City and Colón, seize the radio stations and close the international airport. Arias, 67, who is experienced in such matters, at once drove the half-mile from Panama City to the haven of the Canal Zone...
These familiar arguments were given an unexpected an unintended boost this week by Colonel Robert H. Pell, professor of military science and director of the Army ROTC program here. Col. Pell's personal defense of ROTC for credit is part of a fact sheet on the program the Harvard Undergraduate Council is circulating in the dining halls, and his justification of the program is far more damning of its academic merits than any of the rhetoric of ROTC critics...
...Senior Division Army ROTC curriculum is designed to produce a specific product...," Col. Pell begins, sharply defining a manipulative, mechanistic goal for ROTC courses, hard to reconcile with any definition of a liberal arts education. He explains further that a young man will gain from ROTC "the dedication and skills he must have to be a good Army officer"--again evoking Sears Roebuck management training rather than a college. Twice, in fact, Pell weakens his case by comparing ROTC to other professional disciplines--medicine, law, and business--which Harvard, except for a handful of accounting, engineering, and pre-med courses...
...issue, seem unlikely to recommend that the University sever all relations with ROTC. It would be hard to argue that the student who wants to join an officer's training program should not be allowed to do so. But it is just as indefensible to maintain, as Col. Pell by implication does, that Harvard should be in the business of steering her sons into military management with the lure of a little course credit...