Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threatened to take advantage of Red China's chaos by invading the mainland. Now, though a few officials gave in to the temptation to threaten, the response was remarkably restrained. The Nationalists know that they cannot move without U.S. aid and that, in any case, the Communists may destroy themselves without outside interference...
...much of a military installation as an airfield has created inevitable new hazards for noncombatants. And Mao Tse-tung's dictum, "There is no profound difference between the farmer and the soldier," underlies the special problems created by guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is not deliberately trying to destroy and demoralize civilians; it is guerrilla tactics and terror that attempt this. Writes Dr. Paul Ramsey, professor of Christian ethics at Princeton: "If the guerrilla chooses to fight between, behind and over peasants, women and children, is it he or the counterguerrilla who has enlarged the legitimate target and enlarged...
...future casualties in Viet Nam and weigh them against the casualties of another war that might have to be fought later in Thailand? These are agonizing questions, on which decent men can reach different conclusions. Even, says Professor Ramsey, if the conflict in South Viet Nam itself were to destroy "more values than there is hope of gaining, one must not forget that there are more values and securities and freedoms" to be reckoned with beyond Viet Nam-in Asia and elsewhere in the world...
...proposal reads. What the committee wants is a system similar to Harvard's House application system. Sophomores would list their first three club preferences, which would be respected as much as possible. The effect, of course, would be to make the clubs far more heterogeneous. The proposal would destroy the hierarchy, and a lot of the trauma of the Bicker ordeal. But it would also create a kind of club system a great number of Princeton men would not want...
...support for totalitarian movements in the 1930's there is good reason for apprehension. Historians have usually attributed the stability of this country's political order to the ambiguity of class distinctions and the prevelance of common (middle-class) out-look. Though the split in experience could never destroy this stability, it could certainly weaken it. The war has thus brought out the worst in the draft and the draft has highlighted some of the most dangerous weaknesses in American society