Word: corson
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CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE by WILLIAM R. CORSON 215 pages. Norton...
William R. Corson, the newest recruit, stands in curious contrast to his brethren. A retired Marine Corps colonel-a veteran of World War II, Korea, Viet Nam and duties with the CIA - he is a clean-shaven, shorthair type. His level stare could still panic any ex-G.I. who meets him with shoes unpolished. But Corson's bill of particulars against the republic is far from novel. In fact, it is sobering to recognize how closely his analysis resembles that of the New Left six or seven years ago, minus the hysterical rhetoric...
...Corson's premise is that Viet Nam was a psychological disaster, and that Americans have not yet fully registered the trauma. When we do, will we recover -ever? Corson is not optimistic. In words that might have come from Tom Hayden in a somber moment, he writes: "Our final innocence was lost in Viet Nam, and from here on it is likely that those who stand in the way of action deemed necessary for our national security or 'advancement' will be ground up like leaves in a backyard shredder...
...Corson offers variations on two basic scenarios for the future: one hopeful, one not. He judges the "gloomiest" to be also the "most likely." He foresees no World War III, rather, a sort of new isolationism. Americans will develop a hatred of economically competitive Europeans, who will become "the bete noir of our domestic difficulties." The Third World and our own civil liberties will be equally slighted as we accept "creeping fascism" in exchange for preserving our "economic status and stability...
...demands of one such protest were more than met Thursday when Cornell president Dale R. Corson announced that Cornell no longer holds Gulf Oil stock. Black students at Cornell, as at Harvard, had occupied a building to protest Gulf's involvement in the Portuguese colony of Angola...