Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting the U.S. to call off its bombers, he reasoned, the North Vietnamese would "lower the profile" of the conflict, reducing it from big-unit operations to the pinprick guerrilla maneuvers at which the Communists have been so effective. Reinforcing that line of thought was a document recently captured by U.S. forces calling on the Communists to "fight the war and negotiate at the same time." The directive continued: "The war will be settled only on the battlefield, not in the conference room. When hearing that negotiations are about to take place, we must attack the enemy more strongly...
...editorial, the annual policy guideline for the coming year: "Alongside the rectification of the party organization, the Young Communist Youth League, the Red Guards and various revolutionary mass organizations should be rectified ideologically and organizationally." That was one of only two references in the 3,000-word document to the once all-important Red Guards. For all official purposes, the Red Guards have vanished as thoroughly as Mrs. Mao. Hardly a red armband has been seen in the Chinese capital in the past two months...
...Another piece of yellow journalism. I refer, of course, to the "poll" results. "One out of every four seniors at Harvard...." The statement cries out for clarification. This excellently prepared document was not a poll but a questionnaire, as indeed the Crimson off and on terms it. The essence of a poll or survey is selection. The essence of a questionnaire is voluntary response. This was a questionnaire, answered by those seniors, and only those seniors, who so wished. The questionnaire sought to discover the extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class...
...manpower of this generation, to use the SSS's terms, is being "channeled" into the "essential" endeavors. Essential for what? one asks; and the SSS itself answers most articulately. In an SSS document entitled "Channeling," recently cautiously withdrawn by the SSS, the organization shows it is proud of "developing more effective human beings in the national interest." The SSS document repeatedly mentions that by manipulating deferments it has the same control which "foreign systems" achieve by means of coercion. Still quoting the SSS's own document: their goal is to make the individual feel as if he is "standing...
...write to express our dismay at the recent statement of fourteen "leading scholars," including two from Harvard, about American policies in Asia. To see Professor Handlin's signature on this document was hardly surprising, as his position on the war is well known; we were surprised only to find that he has now been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer...