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Protecting Dissent. Last week Kissinger reiterated to Pike's panel that he was not suppressing any embarrassing information, but trying to maintain State Department morale and efficiency. At issue was a memo written by a desk officer criticizing U.S. policy in Cyprus. Kissinger argued persuasively that lower-level policy recommendations should not be turned over to Congress with the names of the authors attached. Reason: State Department staffers might then hedge their recommendations for fear that they could be dragged before Congress to justify them-as happened in the Joe McCarthy era. Kissinger again offered to supply summaries...
...purchases when Russian crops fail. But nothing in the Japanese agreement prohibits additional purchases beyond the agreed minimum, and it is likely that a Soviet agreement would not do so either. Whatever the terms of a U.S.-Soviet arrangement, they are expected to be worked out quickly; talks among lower-level officials have been going on in Moscow for a month...
...fate of some key members of the Lon Nol regime remained unclear. Former Premiers Long Boret and Sirik Matak were assumed to have been arrested by the Communists, along with several hundred lower-level officials who first found refuge in the French embassy compound but were later forced to leave. Some of these may already be dead; a radio broadcast from inside Cambodia told of beheadings, but could not be confirmed. Political trials in Phnom-Penh were said to be beginning...
...only four of the original lower-level Humanities courses remained. By 1968 there were only three. By 1972, only two. And those that had disappeared were not being replaced by courses of comparable stature...
...been alone in questioning the value, or even feasibility, of the traditional theory of education based upon a core curriculum. Back in 1966, a former Harvard proctor recently noted, general opposition to authority inspired students to question the value of certain long-established basic requirements. In 1968, the compulsory lower-level General Education requirement was abolished. Audiences in lower level courses shrank severely as a result. Students were demanding something new from their courses; they wanted something tangible, to get out and do something. Students were asking to be able to put their energies into something that would have...