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...tremendous disservice to its students. Rather than defaulting on its own responsibility to determine what is and is not a safe study abroad plan, Harvard should take a cue from Yale. While Yale completely bars travel to some countries, such as Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia, it also specifies off-limit areas in others. If a Yalie wished to travel to Lebanon, for instance, he could still receive money from the school unless his travel plans included “border areas.” Likewise, regions of India are also prohibited...
With targets that close to populous or off-limit areas, like hospitals, and with more than 1,400 sorties being flown in the first week alone of the two-week operation by virtually every kind of Air Force and Navy plane in the Indochina arsenal in every kind of weather and through the densest aerial defenses in the world, mistakes were inevitable. Particularly with the massive (100 a day) use of B-52s-each group of three lays its bombs in a row of "boxes" a mile and a half long by half a mile wide-civilian casualties were inescapable...
...Despite the dispute in the U.S. over extending the range of targets, there are so few major ones yet unbombed that U.S. pilots spend most of their time returning to plaster the same old places time and again. Last week the U.S. not only further shrunk the list of off-limit targets but employed a new aerial bombing strategy that threatens to paralyze completely North Viet Nam's transportation and supply arteries...
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