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...label the comparison between the U.S. intervention in Viet Nam and the Soviet Union's intervention in Czechoslovakia [Sept. 20] "hardly exact, since the U.S. intervened in Viet Nam in order to rescue an established government from subversion while the Soviets invaded a friendly neighbor in order to undermine a government that was struggling to gain a measure of independence and freedom." Yet I'm sure the Soviets feel that they are the ones who are rescuing an established regime from subversion, and that it is the U.S. who is undermining a struggle for independence...
Later Rudd was asked if the Columbia movement wasn't nihilistic. No, he answered; their struggle was based on a clearcut Marxian dialectic. One had, on one hand, the Columbia ruling structure, he explained. Complete opposition to this would give rise to the exact opposite, which was, he said, a national democratic socialism. Just why national democratic socialism has to be the exact opposite of the Columbia ruling structure isn't at all clear to me. And it seems to me that Rudd decided it was so because it would best fit his argument...
Because a different bi-national commission must determine the response of each country to the cutbacks, the exact picture for next year will not immediately become clear. Fox has asked students to delay their applications, which are due Oct. 21, for a couple of weeks in order to avoid applying for programs which are terminated...
...record book. Rule No. 142 of the International Amateur Athletic Federation requires that runners wear shoes with no more than six spikes. Carlos and Smith both wore new Puma shoes with soles studded with 68 needle-like spikes designed especially for the composition track that is an exact replica of the running surface at Mexico City. Questad ran in regulation shoes. And Winner Carlos insisted that he could have run 20-flat barefoot...
...give your exact address when you advertise valuables for sale. In numerous instances, the professional burglar meticulously searches the want ads to discover what you have for sale, what time you will be in so the merchandise can be inspected, and what your address and telephone number...