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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks of hill-to-hill fighting, U.S. troopers and their South Vietnamese allies killed, according to actual body count, 1,599 North Vietnamese soldiers. U.S. military experts feel that the actual number of Communist dead probably ran two or three times that high, because the enemy carries off with him so many of his comrades' corpses. U.S. losses were also fairly high. In last week's single battle, 150 U.S. paratroopers fell and another 250 were wounded-the grim measure of American determination to deny Dak To to the enemy...
...first time most of the faculty will have heard the pass-fail proposal officially. We want to let them discuss it in their departments before asking for a vote. The sense of the Faculty may be that pass-fail is OK as long as it doesn't count...
Wilcox explained that he was sure some "theory of limits" will be applied to the pass-fail option. The CEP proposal allows each department to decide whether students in that field can count pass-fail courses toward degree requirements. He hopes that most departments will allow students to take one or two pass-fail courses which count toward concentration...
Most of the chairmen contacted, like Stein, thought pass-fail courses should be allowed to count for concentration, but a few others thought restriction could be justified. "With tutorial and independent study already available, it would be best to use pass-fail to encourage people to take courses outside their field," Stephen Williams, Chairman of the Anthropology Department said...
...total of 11,349 Cambridge residents voted for the resolution, which called for the "prompt return home of the American soldiers from Vietnam." Voters cast 17,742 "no" ballots. There were 1960 blank ballots. The City had obtained a special legislative act delaying the count until yesterday to allow the counting of late absentee ballots...