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Died. General Richard Mulcahy, 85, Irish soldier-politician and perennial foe of Eamon de Valera; in Dublin. Mulcahy dropped his medical studies to fight alongside De Valera during the 1916 Easter Rebellion. When the British recognized the Irish Free State as a dominion five years later, the austere teetotaler led the national forces that crushed De Valera's still dissatisfied Irish Republican Army in a bloody civil war. Mulcahy served in several governments before and after Ireland gained full independence. After his old rival became President in 1932, Mulcahy took the reins of the opposition Fine Gael Party...
Even more significant were Kefauver's efforts as chairman of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. He was a determined foe of economic concentration in American business, and small businessmen facing cutthroat competition from large corporations saw Kefauver as a savior. He exposed industry's concept of "administered prices" which ignored price competition in favor of increased profit. Kefauver also led the fight to reform the drug industry and drafted stiff legislation just before the tragic dimensions of the thalidomide disaster became known...
Cornell still has a shot at its first undisputed Ivy title, for Dartmouth must travel to Princeton this Saturday to finish the season against the Tigers. Cornell, has an easier foe, meeting Penn in Philadelphia...
...many Americans for the first time the bewildering contradictions of a bitter and seemingly unendable war. The summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon by a South Vietnamese police chief-seen in full color -seemed to dissolve the moral distinctions between friend and foe. "News would travel at 300,000 times the speed of a bullet in flight," writes Oberdorfer. The ultimate irony came from the American major who insisted that "it became necessary to destroy this village to save it." As Oberdorfer amply documents, Tet forced a number of commentators and editors (including those...
Oberdorfer is better at chronicling the litany of futility that was Tet than at analyzing its historical meaning. In a personal afterword, he offers the now conventional wisdom that everybody lost in Viet Nam, and that the U.S. never did understand its foe. He predicts that ultimately "it will be a Vietnamese solution and we will probably never understand how it was reached." By then, he says, "Americans will have lost all interest in the outcome and will wonder why so many of our young men died so far away for a cause so few could name." One doubts that...