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...draft has finally entered the university to the detriment of the university, and it is now incumbent upon students and educators to lead a nation-wide lobbying campaign for reform of the Selective Service. On most campuses, the students have been ahead of their administrations and faculties in recognizing the importance of reform. At Chicago and CCNY, the split between students and administration has provoked the former into employing singularly inappropriate tactics. To protest military intrusion in the academy, the students themselves set a dangerous precedent by using brute force to dramatize their position. A whole host of milder methods...
...students who rejected the idea of non-resident advisors thought the "undergraduate perspective" might be more of a detriment than a benefit. They feared that anyone still immersed in the undergraduate world might inadventently infect their advisees with personal prejudices about courses and fields of concentration...
...tough private talk. The result was a compromise: Ky apologized for saying that Danang was ruled by Communists, but insisted-with good reason-that the Viet Cong had infiltrated the demonstrators. Chuan ordered posters put up proclaiming the demonstrators' cause just but not worth pressing to the detriment of the nation. With that, Ky flew back to Danang, leaving Danang's Mayor Nguyen Van Man still in charge. But Ky's marines stayed...
...short, Thai envisages "the Hong Kong type of activities," based upon "exporting products of light industries," as the key to South Vietnam's economic future. Such a plan, of course, would benefit cities like Saigon and Danang to the detriment of the countryside. That's okay with Thai, who wants to "reduce the economy's dependence on agriculture and Viet Cong control." He said he did not believe that military victories would be meaningless if Saigon could not command allegiance in captured territory...
Everywhere, Red China cynically exploits racism to the detriment not only of the Western powers, but also of the Russians, who are increasingly on the defensive in Asia. But racial feeling also works against China, for many Asians have a centuries-old fear of the Chinese and it is at least as strong as their anti-white prejudice. The greatest threat Peking holds over its Asian neighbors is its army-2,500,000 infantrymen, a 12-million-man militia-which could inundate the continent if all its subversive stratagems should fail. That is why Viet Nam is the ultimate test...