Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your publication of the document, "The Case for ROTC at Harvard," is an important contribution to the debate over the future of ROTC. There are several facts about the source and distribution of this memo that should come to the attention of the Harvard community...
...covering letter, signed by Col. Pell, "The Case for ROTC at Harvard" is introduced as a "Department of Military Science position paper." Clearly, it was intended to convey much more than the personal opinion of Col. Pell. When Dean Glimp suggests (letter to CRIMSON, 10 January) that this document represents only Col. Pell "speaking as a man," he is belittling the significance of this elaborate memorandum. The entire package, which runs to nearly fifty pages, must be viewed as the official position of the U. S. Army ROTC Instructor Group at Harvard (Department of the Army...
...Rothberg then spent a full five months, including line-by-line reading of 15 volumes of appropriations-committee hearings, to produce a highly critical series on defense-procurement practices. Team Member Dick Barnes, 30, a former editor of the Stanford Daily, examined 12,000 property records in Detroit to document just one claim in a story charging mismanagement of federal antipoverty funds in that city-the fact that a former business associate of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh had benefited from unusually high rents paid for the program's headquarters. Rothberg's reading of a dreary Soil Conservation Service report...
Other Faculty members who have learned of the letter have been calling in their signatures, Martin said, but the emphasized that no effort is being made to solicit signatures. The drafters of the letter intended it to be a private document and sought no publicity...
...that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time intruded into territorial waters claimed by North Korea, and that we could not apologize for actions we did not believe took place." He added: "My signature will not and cannot alter the facts. I will sign the document to free the crew and only to free the crew...