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...Nixon orders mining of Haiphong and other ports to stop Communist military shipments. Offers withdrawal of all U.S. troops four months after agreement on an internationally supervised ceasefire...
Still the troops came out, but not with a whimper. Nixon applied muscle. From the secret musings came not only the orders for the Cambodian invasion but for the excursion into Laos and then the ultimate shock, the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the renewed heavy bombing of the North. They are all ingredients of the impending peace no less astonishing today than when they happened. Then there was Peking and the mind-boggling view of Nixon raising his glass to Chou Enlai, a part of the Viet Nam equation, and the scene just a few months later of Nixon...
...Southeast Asia, the President attacked "the so-called opinion leaders in this country." Specifically, Nixon was angry at "the leaders of the media, the presidents of our universities, professors and some of our top businessmen" for not supporting his bombing policies or his May 8 decision to mine Haiphong harbor...
...capped a series of antiwar demonstrations prompted by Nixon's mining of Haiphong Harbor Messing said that the sit-in was an attempt to "dramatize" Kissinger's--and Harvard's--role in the formulation of foreign policy...
Messing's case involves the issue of disciplining Faculty, administrators, and members of the Corporation. The reasons for last May's demonstration, coming in the wake of renewed bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor, were the Government Department's "open-chair" policy toward Henry A. Kissinger '50 and its complicity in the Indochina war. But how is a student to seek redress of these grievances? The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities states that "No violation of the rights of members of the University, nor any failure to meet responsibilities, should be interpreted as justifying any violation...