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...nation's top general and its top civilian almost fell to blows last weekend--in a dispute over which of them should have given the order for a Navy carrier task force sailing toward the Indian Ocean to feint toward Vietnam, as a "warning to Hanoi." Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, secretary of state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin...
...general in the Air Force. His retirement in 1972 proved abortive when the military junta that ousted President Salvador Allende in September 1973 drafted him--and his fluent English--to serve the new government as its envoy to the United States. His articulateness in defending the military government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and attacking its enemies were apparent in an interview with The Crimson before his speech last week to members of the Boston-based World Affairs Council...
...killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile is "ready" for democracy...
Pipkin says students tend to go through Harvard nowadays by finding the paths of least resistance and getting through the once-progressive requirements set forth under the Gen Ed plan as easily as they can. "It would be better if students were excited about college," he says. "I remember when I went to college [at the University of Iowa], I knew I wanted to be in physics, but I was also excited by all the other things. But this is 1974, not 1946. It's a different world. The world is more depressing now. After all, remember we had just...
...instead of undertaking a narrow evaluation of Gen Ed, Pipkin says, the committee should look at the philosophy underlying Harvard education: "The real complaint that people have is that we're not clear where we're going or what we're educating people for. One answer to that was the General Education program--that was the old model, and the thing is that it has to be examined in 1974 to see whether it still makes sense...