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...more than 245,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. This deluge totaled 50% more than all the conventional bombs the U.S. rained upon Japan in World War II. Most of it, of course, was aimed at guerrillas hiding in heavy jungle. As a result, the bombing obviously did not inflict the kind of destruction caused by raids over population centers. Nor did it cause the Khmer insurgents to surrender. Only in the few days immediately prior to the bombing halt did the insurgents fall back - about ten miles from Phnom-Penh - and then it was probably to regroup. Insurgents...
...social conditions of the time. But it must also yield the revolutionary a new perspective on his society. We can neither abolish, nor permanently accept our governmental and economic institutions. A successful revolutionary movement must have a compelling plan for dealing with the grave injustices which those institutions inflict upon us. It is here that Revolution American Style fails. Without a cogent plan, whatever "American" spirit there is within us remains academic. The Revolution of 1976 will be inoperative...
...Planning Department report also warned of the harm such traffic might inflict on East Cambridge and chided the CRA for ignoring the City's transportation policy, which encourages mass transportation and discourages automobiles...
...Cloud and other Oglala Sioux eventually signed the treaty, primarily because they had no real choice. The cavalry had already assumed control of the Hills, although one non-signer-Sitting Bull-managed to inflict a horrible defeat on General George A. Custer...
...Kraus plan is supposed to be traversed by "merit-based grants," Harvard's euphemism for monetary bait to lure "bright" students away from other graduate schools. Grants based on merit, awarded by departmental Faculty, inflict an inherent bias on our liberal academic community--a "bright" student might turn out to be one who parrots his academic sponsor's line. The College long ago eliminated this auctioning for students: the GSAS should follow suit...