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Across the table from Hanoi's representatives, Harriman will be dealing with minds far more involuted and methods far less direct than the Russians'. Since 1961, Harriman has been deeply involved in the conflict between Saigon's independence and Hanoi's drive for hegemony. He has been in almost constant motion in both the policymaking and negotiating phases, remaining unruffled even during the past month's dickerings. "I never pack my bags until we move," Harriman says of his many missions. Last week he once again began packing. "It is 20 years almost...
...tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised teaching, video tapes can easily be kept up to date by shoot ing and splicing in a new footage...
Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...
Tens of other self-help groups followed, but the community movement required more than drive and managerial skill: it needed educational expertise. "Before 1965, the ghetto didn't know where to look for guidance," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, and a student at the Ed School. "They naturally began to look at the sources of education. Harvard gained its prominence by the fact of its size...
...prevented it from being busted the first day, the Columbia demonstration would not have succeeded. But in spite of this, either because white power controls the media or just because it was the culmination of a long string of student rebellions, the Columbia demonstrations represent a watershed in the drive for student sovereignty...