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Meanwhile, by encouraging incessant guerrilla campaigns in Laos and South Viet Nam, Red China seeks to gain control of Southeast Asia, thereby hoping to inflict a major defeat on the U.S. It keeps committing acts of aggression against its neighbors; having ruthlessly conquered and exploited Tibet, it is stirring up continuous border troubles with India. Last week India sent a strong note to Peking, protesting new border incursions by Chinese troops, who already occupy 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory. Peking moreover rivals Moscow for control of the Communist world, as became clear at the 22nd Party Congress, setting...
...that a progressive moral deterioration has taken place in U.S. thinking, which began with the obliteration bombings of German and Japanese cities in World War II. "It has seemed ever since that the assumption underlying most attitudes is that there are no moral limits to the damage we may inflict on the enemy at a distance," though there are still some scruples about what may be done to individuals at close hand. The U.S., Bennett feels, is in danger of making "a moral leap from the posture of deterrence to the will to initiate nuclear war at some stage...
...Attempts to relieve by frontal leucotomy (lobotomy) the nagging persistent pain and dread that cancer may inflict on its victims," Dr. White said, "date back 15 years. Except as a procedure of last resort, bilateral extensive lobotomies have never been popular. The ensuing deterioration in personality and mentation can be appalling, much more so than in the psychotic who has undergone a similar procedure...
Harvard goes into today's game at slightly less than full strength. Tufts may not have injured anyone's pride, but the slow, rumbling Elephants did inflict a number of minor injuries on Crimson players. "On the whole," Munro reported, "they banged us up pretty badly...
...Communists, with good reason, back the International Control Commission. Created at the 1954 conference that dismembered Indo-China, the I.C.C. is manned by Indians, Canadians and Poles -exactly the kind of neutral-West-Red directorate that Khrushchev now wants to inflict on the United Nations. Last week the I.C.C. was back in Laos 90 men strong to "verify" the ceasefire...