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Inside the capital, two Viet Cong agents at a camp for defectors tried to toss a grenade at the South Vietnamese Cabinet Minister who heads the "open arms" program for defectors, but a genuine defector managed to get the grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed...
Some negotiations with the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese would be necessary to carry out the plan he advocates, Calkins noted. Since the United States must retain a position from which to negotiate, it cannot declare that it intends to withdraw unconditionally from Vietnam, he added...
...going to Washington today or tomorrow for a big parade with thousands of radicals and pacifists, peace symbols and Viet Cong flags, troops and parade permits. Few know precisely why they are going; many who support immediate withdrawal are not going; some of those going are fairly conservative...
...Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good bloody knock-some-sense-into-their-dirty-heads streetlight to show the Viet Cong and the world that Nixon is in the driver's seat? And why should he be afraid of further alienating the anti-war movement? The fact that we have to beg for a parade permit after four years of this war shows our impotence...
Diverting Talent. The Lincoln Laboratory, for example, has developed a foliage-penetrating radar that detects Viet Cong hiding in the jungle. The Instrumentation Laboratory has designed a multiple-warhead guidance system for the Navy's Poseidon missile. Radical students, who staged a march at "I-lab" in April, insist that a university should totally shun research that is aimed at killing people. Moderate students and professors argue that the special labs' secrecy violates the academic principle of free inquiry, and more basically, that the growth of the special labs has diverted M.I.T. talent from domestic and social problems...