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Died. Clarence Cook Little, 83, educator and pioneer cancer researcher; in Ellsworth, Me. When Little emerged in 1954 as a spokesman for the tobacco industry, arguing there was no firm clinical evidence linking smoking and lung cancer, few were surprised. The brilliant geneticist had long been regarded as a maverick. Little suspended his research to run the University of Maine from 1922 to 1925. Later, as president of the University of Michigan, he angered students by attempting to ban on-campus drinking and enraged parents by lecturing on birth control. In 1929, Little left Ann Arbor for Bar Harbor, where...
...hardly more perceptive. President Thieu, for instance, actively believed that the U.S. military had conspired with the Communists to bring about the Tet campaign. He suspected that a Communist success would force a coalition government on Saigon, and thereby speed up the prospect of American withdrawal. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker appeared on Saigon television to deny "this ridiculous claim," it was confirmation to many South Vietnamese that the rumors and accusations were true...
Host at a small dinner at his Saigon villa last spring, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker allowed as how western-styled democracy had been "grafted" onto the autocratic, family-oriented society of South Viet Nam. One of his guests joked, "Mr. Ambassador, why do you use the word graft, when it has so many connotations in this country?" Bunker smiled and replied, "Because I do not want to use the word imposed...
Minutes after the group had gathered, rocks ripped through the church windows and fire bombs exploded eight motorcycles and a Jeep. McGovern and his aides took cover in the church office, but it required three frantic calls to the U.S. embassy, one of them to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, before American MPs rescued the Senator...
Following a private meeting with General Minh several months ago, I tried to tell Mr. Kissinger what he should have known anyway: that Minh would not accept his assigned role in a Kissinger-produced, Ellsworth Bunker-directed charade. Minh happens to be an honest man as torn inwardly as his country is torn outwardly by an endless, American-made war. Mr. Kissinger and Ambassador Bunker bear full responsibility for blocking South Vietnamese self-determination and destroying the best chance for peace since the war began...