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...Morris back channel has caused even more upheaval than usual in the ad hoc Clinton White House. Strategists were preparing to keep Clinton at a distance from the Contract with America and to allow surrogates to bash the G.O.P. But in a conversation in early April, the Connecticut-based Morris advised Clinton to follow his inclination by taking the issues head on and explaining what he would do differently. The result: the day House Speaker Gingrich was to give a presumptively presidential address on national television, the President scrapped plans to deliver a speech on education and delivered a Morris...
...resistance. A unit commanded by General Ly Tong Ba did put up a fierce fight at Cu Chi, about 12 miles from Saigon, through the night of April 28 and on into the afternoon of the 29th. But, finding his position untenable, Ba decided on a fighting retreat to Hoc Mon, a bit closer to Saigon. "I bring my staff with me, working, fighting," says Ba. "Oh, the bullets just...
...ambushed Ba's troops on the road to Hoc Mon. Ba remembers yelling "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" at his force, only to have a captain tell him, "Sir, we cannot shoot. I think it's all over now, sir." At NVA command, Ba's men meekly laid down their weapons, while the general and his bodyguard hid in a flooded rice paddy, lying face up with eyes half shut and only noses poking above the murky water. That bought Ba less than 24 hours of freedom. He tried to get through the NVA lines by passing himself off as a farmer...
Rudenstine said that the current issue takingup most of his time is the appointment of thisyear's tenured professors from school's across theUniversity, all of which he has the final say on.In the last three weeks, Rudenstine said he hasgone through about a dozen arduous meetings withan ad hoc committee to consider each candidatethat has been recommended for tenure
Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '46 has convened a secret "ad-hoc fact finding" committee to investigate the research of a Harvard professor noted for his study of UFO phenomena and Alien abductions, according to a source requesting anonymity...