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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened; it may never happen. But the two recent battles over Damansky Island have raised the specter of such an all-out war between the two giant Communist nations, and something like the above scenario must be haunting the generals in Moscow and Peking. Communist China's acting Chief of Mission in Geneva, Pi Hsien-Sheng, summed up China's view of Soviet policy last week by asking: "Yesterday Czechoslovakia, now Chen Pao. Who knows what country tomorrow?" For the moment, both countries have tightly controlled their responses to border clashes, and both have capitalized on the incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: A Sino-Soviet Shooting Script | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...THIS IS A little play of puppets...everything happens in it that could never happen, its personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Bonds of Interest | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

...have it both ways. If you think that these issues are purely political--that it's a question of power only--that concerns about academic excellence. University control, grading, personnel--are irrelevant, then say so. I happen to think that these are legitimate concerns, and I'm sick of your dishonesty in exploiting them when you think it expedient and ignoring them when it doesn't suit you. Phillip J. MacDonnell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACADEMICS OR POLITICS | 3/20/1969 | See Source »

...Conspiracy will focus its initial efforts on getting support from the Harvard community. "Petitions are going out today," Gagarin said. "We'd like to be able to run another ad next week--with 500 signatures on it. Despite everything King Collins had against him, he made a lot happen. A group of us could do a lot more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Conspiracy Seeks New Education | 3/20/1969 | See Source »

...meantime, a million and a half person died. If we continue to do nothing, five million more persons may die before June. But we do not have to let this happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Leaders Unite In Seeking Help For Biafra | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

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