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...Provost Marshal's Office...
Chinese newspapers hammered the restoration theme in a joint Army Day editorial last week, urging the faithful "to unite, to be open and above board." The star of the Defense Ministry's Army Day reception was Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, an old (74) hero from the days of the Long March whom Mao summoned out of semiretirement as the September crisis was approaching. Peking has let it be known that Yeh will soon be named Lin's successor as Defense Minister in an important first step toward filling out Mao's decimated government...
Being the saving and collecting type, I still have, and it is presently in front of me, the Harvard Crimson of June 5, 1947, which reports that Marshal did indeed receive an honorary degree, but says nothing of any such speech. I also still have the program, or "Order of Exercises" which lists only the following speakers (allowing that I might have been daydreaming during the historic address that supposedly graced my own graduation exercises...
...Republicans will be moving just as energetically as the McGovern forc es to marshal volunteers for similar get-out-the-vote drives. They will use their ample funding to dominate television and print appeals. Nixon is expected to wage a relatively dignified, "I am the President" campaign, avoiding the shrill law-and-order pitch that backfired in the 1970 congressional elections. He could come across as both more stable and wiser than McGovern...
...Kremlin would react to the mining, some Sovietologists were not surprised that the initial Russian reaction was a relatively moderate statement of disapproval that jeopardized neither the West German vote nor Nixon's visit. The Soviets did their best to maintain a business-as-usual attitude. For example, Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, flew to Syria for a four-day visit. The reason is that for the past three years, Moscow's foreign policy has been based on three major considerations...