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...resolution reads, in part, "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences expresses its revulsion at the terrorist bombing inflicted last December by the government of our country, and condems all the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages that our government has caused in Indochina for the past eight years...
Among those who feel that the commission is bound to fail is Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose record in predicting events in Indochina has been remarkably accurate. Answering questions cabled by TIME's Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Sihanouk said: "I wish I were wrong for the sake of the Vietnamese people, but I believe South Viet Nam will eventually be divided in two-that is, one South Viet Nam satellite of the U.S., and another South Viet Nam run by the Viet Cong-for a while at least. One day a violent confrontation between...
...there are compelling reasons why the cease-fire might work this time round. One is that Washington, Moscow and Peking agree that it is no longer in their national interests to carry on a war in Indochina. Hanoi and the Provisional Revolutionary Government also have an interest in keeping the peace, since the agreement gives them a guaranteed place in the political life of South Viet Nam, which they believe will assure them of their ultimate goal. Besides the prospect of massive reconstruction aid from the U.S. for both Viet Nams-which Hanoi drastically needs to rebuild its industrial plant...
...than to cover less violent stories in parts of Europe. "Because the Americans made it so easy to get around," he explains, "it was easy to get killed. That's why so many died-freedom of the press." A total of 55 newsmen are missing or dead in Indochina, and many others have been wounded...
Perhaps the only way to prevent a resumption, or a repetition, of the American travesty in Indochina is for us to fall back on our experience these past three and a half years, and take a hard look at the world about us. It is not difficult to recall the first semester the Class of 1973 spent at Harvard, though often it seems a lifetime ago. It was the fall after University Hall had been cleared in a bloody pre-dawn raid which most of us had read about, but few of us understood. Parents were having second thoughts about...