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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mortar. Then Soviet and Red Chinese arms began trickling down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the gradual buildup began. Lately, the buildup has intensified, bringing the Viet Cong an abundance of modern weapons and ammunition. "There is no longer anything ragtag, bobtail or worn out about their main-force weapons," says Major General Joseph A. McChristian, senior American intelligence officer in Viet Nam. "They are first rate." What is more, says McChristian, "we rarely receive reports now of any Viet Cong shortages of small-arms ammunition-or any kind of ammunition...
...wore a new symbol of quiet protest: yellow daffodils. The London Times called the student demonstrations "unprecedented in British university history." The march was inspired by the round-the-clock LSE sit-in which began a week ago Monday. Between 200 and 800 students have been occupying LSE's main entrance hall, unfurling a banner reading, "Beware the Pedagogic Gerontocracy"--beware the rule...
...main problem is that nobody's played the game before they got here, so we have to teach them the fundamentals," explains Smith...
...atmosphere of the School that Monday symbolized the change which had occurred between the end of January and the middle of March. In the hours before the verdict was announced, steel fire-doors were lowered between the administration building and the main teaching building; at the single open entrance to the administrative offices, students were required to deposit their registration cards as they went in, and a written record was kept of their movements. During February the students had been depressed and divided; most hoped that quiet negotiations with influential professors would somehow secure leniency for the accused leaders...
...with minute points of discipline can only hurt the real business of education. For six weeks in February and March, the Administration exhausted the School with disciplinary hearings which most students and many faculty members thought fundamentally unnecessary and unjust. This week, the students have taken possession of the main buildings, and are running an "open university." In a letter from London which arrived yesterday, a friend described the round-the-clock seminars on educational theory and structure; lectures by sympathetic academics; and the general ferment of trying to discover what "freeing education" means, and how to implement such...