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...just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...action, closeups and further background to refute Pentagon suggestions that supporting helicopters were not American, that the South Vietnamese troops were merely on a training exercise and that the prisoner may have been dead when stabbed. To debunk the last charge, CBS produced the knife wielder, Sergeant Nguyen Van Mot of the South Vietnamese Regional Forces, who claimed that he had stabbed the prisoner in self-defense...
...professors threw out the proposal that beginning students take a minimum number of MOT courses. One student reformer said in retrospect that the faculty wasn't willing to work out the 200 to 400 MOT courses that would have been required to make the plan work...
...They argued that we were asking them to eliminate all requirements, so we couldn't require MOT courses," this student continued. "But some younger professors realized that we were really asking for much more time spent on undergraduates and on teaching instead of research- and teaching is not generally highly regarded...
Thirty-seven MOT courses were introduced this fall, and students signed up for them eagerly. There will be two dozen more in the spring. A student-faculty committee oversees the program...