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...Saigon, Ambassador Martin is controversial these days. Some of his bright young Foreign Service subordinates bristle at the old man's intransigency. They complain that he squelches the normal give and take of policy discussion, refuses to pass along to Washington any political reporting that does not conform to his own, and limits distribution of State Department messages to a few hand-picked aides...
...Horsey states: "Robert Harper '78 is said to be under great pressure from the YSA-SWP (Young Socialists Alliance-Socialists Workers Party) although he is not a member of either group." This statement, accompanied by previous ones implies that Mr. Harper is "under pressure" which leads him to conform to, accept and support the practices of the YSA-SWP. Who has "said" this? What group or individual, halfway knowledgeable of NSCAR's organizing efforts and activities would make this statement...
...method: the Viet Nam War is too convoluted, too devious to be examined in a style of compilation without comment. And righteous indignation may tend to blind the documentary film maker to his prime task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects on a smaller screen. The subject and scope of the Southeast Asian conflict are too large for such narrow-gauge examination. Unhappily...
...they run the risk of a backlash against the boycott when they begin to invest their oil billions in Western countries in a big way. As President Ford put it bluntly last week: "Foreign businessmen and in vestors are welcome in the United States when they are willing to conform to the principles of our society...
...regulations--Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972--have been sent to President Ford and will go into effect next fall if he approves them. Institutions refusing to conform to the act will be in danger of losing all federal funding...