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Just because Harvard refuses to take stands as an institution does not mean that it is neutral. It has over $600 million invested in stocks, much of that in large corporations that benefit from the war. No one is asking the University to unload the stocks and buy something neutral, like Swiss Savings Bonds. But the first step is to force the University to realize that it is contributing to this war, whether it can help...
...government, dejected by the demoralization of a populace suddenly feeling even less secure than before, disappointed by the failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they had been spread entirely too thin over too many crisis areas to be effective. While the U.S. and its allies officially reported 40,000 enemy soldiers killed since the Tet offensive began...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...
...abysmal failure to implement the "Truth in Negotiations Law" causes the greatest runoff in defense funds. From minimal spot-checking over a ten-year period, the GAO has turned up some $130 million in overcharges to the government. Senator Proxmire attributes "billions of dollars" to this failure. The absence of many Defense cost records and the shoddiness of others makes it impossible to calculate the exact amount of wastage, but every indication points toward a multi-billion dollar...
...group hopes to get one million signatures by the end of April. The petition would then be submitted to John W. McCormack (D-Mass...