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...their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"?cold comfort...
...most important fact in Washington's failure on Thursday to be reelected for the first time since 1947 to the U.N. Human Rights Commission is that it was America's friends, not its enemies, that engineered the defeat. After all, the likes of China and Cuba and other targets of U.S.-led criticism in the committee were always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. reelection turned their backs on Washington. That such a scenario would unfold on this particular vote at this...
...With the defeat, the Crimson finishes the season with one more loss than last year's 18-25 squad... Hordon pinch hit for the second straight game. The freshman had started the year as a two-way player and led the team in strikeouts early in the year before arm problems sidelined him for most of the Crimson's stretch run... Hopps had a tough final game, striking out twice and letting several pitches get past behind behind the plate. In the middle of his last plate appearance, his bat sailed out of his grip and sailed back into...
Harvard (18-25, 11-9 Ivy) suffered its fourth defeat in its last five games. The Crimson was eliminated from the Ivy League playoffs on Sunday...
...start for Harvard at first base yesterday, but never actually took the field. After striking out looking to lead off the top of the first, Farmer was replaced defensively by San Salvador. ... Harvard lost to UMass exactly one week after dealing the Minutemen a crushing 21-11 defeat at O’Donnell Field...