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...infiltrator, pushed a guard aside--and tacked six demands to his door. Three of the demands dealt with ROTC; the other three with university-community relations, an issue to which no one outside the later dominant but as yet still embattled Progressive Labor faction of SDS had hitherto paid much attention. The six demands were...
...Burma Communist Party launched its first major offensive at the end of 1971 by laying siege to the administrative outpost of Kunlong in the Wa States in the northeasternmost corner of Burma. The intensity of the Communist attack came as a surprise to Rangoon, which had hitherto paid scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after...
...fact, my guess is that one hundred years from now, this book will not be remembered because it was especially funny, or because it cast a unique light on our age, or because it was the first anthology published by a collegiate publication, or even because it contained hitherto unpublished papers of John Reed and George Peppard. My guess is that one hundred years from now, this book will not be remembered...
More telling, perhaps, was the treatment in the Soviet press of President Nixon, who, for an American politician, has hitherto been afforded extraordinary deference. After the U.S. military alert, an unusually blunt statement by Tass accused Washington of "absurd" reports about the Soviet military alert intended to "intimidate" the U.S.S.R. Soviet newspapers, which had virtually ignored "Vatergatski," even began hinting to the Russian public that Nixon might not survive in office...
...opening not to be ignored. The statement, although filled with weighty language, qualifications and hesitations, clearly marked a turn in Administration policy. Conservative Bill Buckley caught the hint right away: one of his nationally syndicated columns a week after the speech obliquely praised its content, expressing pleasure that Bok, hitherto thought to be a "trendy" person, "might give us back our ROTC...