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...Worsthorne argues, the U.S. presence in Viet Nam "may have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
...Utah, for example, Law Professor Arvo Van Alstyne is completing a study of tenure that is expected to propose a new code of faculty performance standards, periodic reviews by a faculty committee to check performance, and a top-level ombudsman to hear student complaints of bad teaching. Even if laggard professors could not be fired, they might be required to take refresher courses. Says B.U. President Silber: "One of the most severe penalties you can impose on a faculty member is the intellectual disapprobation of his colleagues...
...integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times, not an unusual rate for laggard Southern judges, some of whom are still serving as glacially as ever...
...Laggard States. The main problem, asserts the Nader group, is the federal program's failure to control industrial effluents. They account for at least 50% of the oxygen-consuming wastes handled by municipal water-treatment plants, many of which are thus overloaded. They also include very dangerous contaminants (arsenic, cadmium, mercury), which few treatment plants can remove from drinking water. Even advanced plants, says the report, may be unable to handle the estimated 500 new chemicals that industry develops each year...
...Hurt by laggard payments, merchants are taking a sterner stand on debts. Two weeks ago. Brooks Brothers advised customers that its nationwide chain of shops would no longer extend credit entirely free of charge. Starting in March, most of the Brooks shops will charge 1½% monthly interest on accounts that are unpaid for 30 days or more. Bergdorf Goodman will also begin putting charges on tardy accounts. Businesses of all kinds are now at taching brightly colored stickers to their bills to grab debtors' attention...