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DEFENSE Secretary Melvin Laird visited South Viet Nam last week for a first-hand look at the effectiveness of the Nixon Administration's policies. Laird went into the field togged out in fatigues and a baseball cap, and announced on departure that "Vietnamization is working." It is "on schedule in some places and ahead of schedule in others," he reported. "We face formidable but manageable problems ahead...
CBLF was founded five months ago to deal "first-hand" with urban ghetto problems where federal and municipal authorities have allegedly failed. It is presently seeking financial and material support from citizens, business, and churches in the Riverside area...
...Committee tricked signers by not warning them that the petition would be released to the press. But more important than examining the petty charges against the petition, it might be worthwhile to find out who these 100 duped Business School students are and to get their point of view first-hand. Hokanson when asked for the names of some of these 100. replied, "Frankly, I don't give a shit whether you know any of their names or not. "He admitted that the Wall Street Journal reporter had asked him the identical question and, when pressed further. Hokanson conceded that...
...BEEN a year since the State Department decided that letting people go to Cuba would not spread the cancer of communism back home. If you look around a little, you can probably find someone who has been there. First-hand accounts have multiplied the trickle of information which Americans had about Cuba two years ago and the picture which emerges is of a promising but troubled society...
From the Paris bureau they received an unexpected contribution -an intimate, first-hand report on Chinese Communism from the staff librarian, Jean Pasqualini. Born in Peking of a Chinese mother and a Corsican father, Pasqualini served as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines after World War II, later was arrested by Mao's police, charged with spying and sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp. After serving seven years, Pasqualini was released...