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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military. They offer no alternatives when they propose destruction of the nation's armed forces. (Let it be understood beyond question that there is as present no acceptable alternate source of junior officer leadership if ROTC is driven from the college campus.) The radicals' reasons for wanting to destroy ROTC are patiently contrived because they are exactly the same reasons that existed without challenge for 50 years before Vietnam clouded our vision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Pell's Case for ROTC | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...most serious deficiency he discovered was the lack of equipment to destroy classified documents and secret electronic gear. Bucher tried repeatedly to obtain a destruct system for the electronics snooping devices, but his requests were turned down by the Navy. Instead, Pueblo was-issued fire axes and sledgehammers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PUEBLO: AN ODYSSEY OF ANGUISH REPLAYED | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...destroy secret documents, Bucher installed an electric paper shredder and a small incinerator. The burner was totally inadequate for the amount of classified material Pueblo would carry. But Bucher could not know that because he was not even cleared for access to the ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PUEBLO: AN ODYSSEY OF ANGUISH REPLAYED | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...experiment gave a community-elected neighborhood board and its Negro administrator, Rhody McCoy, a measure of local control over policies in the area's eight schools. The project was opposed by the predominantly Jewish United Federation of Teachers, which feared that decentralization, if applied to the entire system, would destroy the union's bargaining power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Black and the Jew: A Falling Out of Allies | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...examine Ford's four circles or unrest, you will not that there are very prominent gaps in the program of the so-called "wreckers." Apparently we want to destroy for the sake of desruction, or else we want some ill-defined revolution. Since it is true that revolution is not one interest or value among others, then those of us whom he would place in the fourth circle appear to outsiders to have no definite program of interests. In this light, our concern for the interests of others is merely a ruse for the furtherance of our own revolutionary ends...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: Force and History at Harvard: Is Tolerance Possible? | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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