Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar assaults in the past-when hills were taken at high cost and then quickly abandoned-Senator Edward Kennedy charged that it was "both senseless and irresponsible to continue to send our young men to their deaths to capture hills and positions that have no relation to this conflict." After initial hesitation, the Army fought back, describing the battle as a "tremendous, gallant victory." Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st, observed that "the only significance of Hill 937 was the fact that there were North Vietnamese on it. My mission was to destroy enemy forces and installations...
Fortunately or unfortunately, human beings, perhaps especially human beings in universities, do not live together in strict accord with general principles. Instead they work out, from case to case, a set of often unspoken agreements and working rules to govern their own behavior and settle conflicts. This process began at Harvard as early as the McNamara episode. Whether it can continue is uncertain because the moral conflict is indeed an intense one. There are, I suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among...
Hyde emphasized that his group is not in conflict with the Ad Hoc Committee. "We are just trying to get as many people as possible to do something," he said...
...treasurer to invest the University's funds in a corporation which he has served as a director since its founding in 1949 and in which his own investment firm and he personally have financial interest. Middle South might be a profitable investment, but what seems like a possible conflict of interest could in some cases result in imprudent uses of Harvard's money...
...Gerlach, coordinator of such activities in second place Wigglesworth West, felt that some guys wanted to go at it in a very professional way, while others just wanted to go out and have fun. This conflict of purposes tended to cut down participation. Gerlach also thought that the organization left something to be desired. Sometimes, schedules would appear two days before the games were to be played. And once, when some Wigg. West individuals went down to Weld boathouse to sign up for the singles, the lists were just nowhere to be found...