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President Nixon pointed to the current low U.S. casualty rate as a sign that the war was winding down. In Saigon last week, the U.S. command reported that October's total of 409 battle deaths was the lowest monthly toll since 1966. Nixon stressed that a low "level of enemy activity" must accompany U.S. withdrawal. Even as he spoke, the enemy stepped up its activities in what U.S. officers described as the beginning of the winter offensive. Communist units launched scattered attacks, and Saigon's defenses were hit for the first time since September...
...Poland's diplomacy is Russia, but there is also a good deal of national self-interest behind its current enthusiasm. Like many other Eastern Europeans, the Poles have watched enviously as Rumania and Hungary multiplied their trade with West Germany. Russia also has steadily increased its own trade with Bonn, and so has East Germany, which Poland had been counting on as a supplier of sorely needed technology. Moreover, Moscow has been holding talks with West Germany since 1966 about a mutual agreement renouncing the use of force-a deal that Poland fears might not provide adequate security...
...long silence? "If you give an interview to one magazine," he explains in the current issue of Rolling Stone, "then another one'll get mad. People don't understand that the press, they just use you to sell papers. And, in a certain way, that's not bad, but when they misquote you all the time, and when they just use you to fill in some story, it hurts because you think you were just played for a fool...
...University must also report each April on the number of minority workers it hires. The charts Harvard sends in-which are broken down by employment level as well as by race-help clear up some of the current confusion over just how many black workers Harvard employs...
...Personnel office is still working on details of its MA-5 program and does not know how big its grant finally will be. But a Personnel officer estimated yesterday that about 85 people from the community and 25 current Harvard employees might go through the training. Under MA-5 rules, the number of "upgraded" current employees cannot be more than 30 per cent of the number of community people trained...