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Last year a birth control bill drafted by Dr. David D. Rutstein, chairman of the Medical School's Department of Preventive Medicine, and Dr. Duncan E. Reid, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, went down to a 119-97 defeat...
Hanoi's rebuff to the President's peace offensive and the tactical failure of the 37-day bombing pause have apparently led the Administration to intensify its determination not "to reward the aggressors." The first point of Tuesday's Declaration of Honolulu states: "We must defeat the Viet Cong and those illegally fighting with them on our soil." On Monday, President Johnson said that "strength is the only language that the Communists understand," and that "it is vitally important to every American family that we stop the Communists in South Vietnam...
Behind the rhetoric, the Administration's strategy could have either of two objectives: a total military defeat of the Viet Cong by means of a continued escalation of the conflict; or, more moderately, an eventual coalition government dominated by the present Saigon regime. In the face of the military and political situation in the South, the CRIMSON considers both goals unrealistic and we now oppose the Administration's conduct...
...possible Administration objective, wiping out the Communists below the 17th parallel would involve unthinkable costs and dangers. Even to defeat the 230,000-man Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...reasonable proposal, this, in Kissinger's view, was an argument for rather than against our taking the initiative. Any other course would see us "jockeyed into a position of refusing diplomatic solutions," and, when we finally agreed to discussion, as we inevitably must, it would seem an American defeat. Diplomacy, Kissinger concluded, was the "necessary corollary to the build...