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...Ambassador Graham Martin had behaved for weeks as if South Viet Nam was not going to fall at all, whistling with glum urbanity through the Asian Gotterdammerung. He did not want to start a panic. Now, at 3:30 on the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1975, President Ford flashed orders from the White House for Martin to board a helicopter on the embassy roof and get to the U.S. fleet in the South China...
...Israeli government's West Bank policies were critically examined last week in a report by the Jerusalem-based West Bank Data Base Project, an independent research organization funded by grants from the American Enterprise Institute and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. The study claimed that Israel has taken effective control of more than half of the land in the West Bank during its 18-year occupation. Development on some Arab land in the area was said to be restricted because of Israeli building and land-use regulations. According to the report, "The Israelis, by imposing direct control over half...
Although noted education expert and Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31 says he thinks students are partially to blame for the decline in standards, he also believes that most of the burden lies with professors. "The faculties are not thinking of ways to invite students into what they're doing," he says. "Fires aren't lit by the faculty anymore...
...department through the misuse of my words is deplorable. It is truly unfortunate that what should have been a time of unmitigated joy has been turned into something ugly by irresponsible journalism. I hope the Crimson will take steps to ensure that this does not happen again. Barry D. Ford...
...editors believe the remarks attributed to Ford were directed toward the reporter in question and were quoted accurately. Given the humorous tone of the article, the editors did not find it necessary to say that Ford was joking...