Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee was formed last week to seek new tenured members of the Afro-American Studies Department. The committee, appointed by John T. Dunlop, former dean of the Faculty, and mandated by the Faculty last January, includes Guinier, Dean Rosovsky, Robert J. Kiely, associate dean for Undergraduate Education, and Kenneth Dike, professor of History...
...Fall of 1969, the CRR served with student representatives, operated with the support of moderate students, and enforced what was considered an even-handed Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that outlined the obligations of both students and the Administration. The CRR and the Resolution were initially heralded as a dike erected by liberal Faculty to hold back the flowing tide of Administrative reaction in the wake of the 1969 upheaval...
Near a village in Nam Ha province, said Öste, he visited a dike where 16 bombs fell-twelve of them delayed-action. One direct hit tore a hole in a dike that protects an area in which 400,000 people live. No military objectives were in sight, said Öste, not even a road. His conclusion: Washington was attempting to pass off the dike attacks to the U.S. public as "accidents" and "mistakes," while "at the same time making sure that Hanoi knows the attacks against the dams are a deliberate effort to force the Hanoi government to give...
...response to such charges, a State Department spokesman last week accused the North Vietnamese of a "monstrous lie campaign," and a White House staffer described the Swedish journalists involved in the controversy as "the conscious tools of Hanoi." The dikes are not being "targeted," Administration officials repeated, though they admitted as before that a few bombs have dropped on dikes near military targets. Some reconnaissance photographs, for instance, showed roads atop dikes that were filled with supply convoys; others showed a stretch of dike with three 37-mm. antiaircraft gun emplacements on it. The State Department at first denied Swedish...
Kraft's conclusion more or less supports what U.S. officials have been saying. They have maintained that the dikes were not being "targeted," but have admitted that a few dikes near military targets have been damaged accidentally. At week's end the State Department released the results of a photo-reconnaissance of the entire Red River Delta taken in mid-July. The survey, said the department, revealed bomb craters at only twelve locations in the dike system-ten of them near petroleum storage tanks, and all relatively minor. Insisted State flatly: "The evidence shows conclusively that there...