Word: mits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report charging that Hanoi had decided as early as May 1959 to launch a military offensive against the Saigon regime. Since 1964, the document added, Hanoi has sent more than 200,000 men into the South, now has at least 85,000 there. Until the North Vietnamese ad mit their presence, said Harriman, "meaningful and frank discussions" are impossible...
...members who have expressed interest in the course are: Robert M. Coles, research psychiatrist at UHS; Joseph L. Featherstone, graduate student in history and associate editor of the New Republic; Barbara N. Cohn, lecturer in General Education; and Paul Potter, a founder of SDS and instructor in philosophy at MIT...
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, expressed the feeling of the academic world when he said, "The question 'What have I done?' is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read, each day, of fresh atrocities in Vietnam--as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom...
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 -- I wake up at 8:55 and run to the crew bus and leave for MIT. In Cambridge I call home. My mother asks me, "Are you on the side of the law-breakers in this thing?" For ten minutes we exchange mother talk and revolutionary rhetoric. She points out that neither Ghandi nor Thoreau would have asked for amnesty. I admit I haven't read them. But Ghandi had no Ghandi to read and Thoreau hadn't read Thoreau. They had to reach their own conclusions and so will...
...position. Don't get me wrong, I say, I'm not against beating up on a few pukes, I just don't think you should stoop to their level by mimeographing stuff. We both go out and kill ourselves trying to row a boat faster than eight students from MIT will be able...