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These students, who are far more numerous than outright draft resistors, believe that the current course of U.S. action promises nothing but a possibly interminable war and the chance of a military conflict with the Chinese Communists. But they are unsure whether violating federal law is a suitable form of political protest, to say nothing of the heavy personal costs they might have to pay for the rest of their lives. The main contribution of this segment of Harvard dissenters has been the petition for a new form of conscientious objection...
...student activists of the past two years, however, have seen the limited success of civil rights legislation in the south, and the outright failure of attempts to end discrimination in the north. They have learned painfully the imperviousness of the government to persuasion by protest on Vietnam. In dealing with both of these problems, they have lacked the black and white issues which made confrontation possible. The facts no longer speak for themselves; it is no longer a matter of demonstrating the situation of discrimination or war to the rest of the country. The "war machine," the "system," the opponents...
This time the Defense Department shied away from its politically unpopular proposal to merge federal Reserve and the state-run Guard. Instead, it recommended outright elimination of 15 understrength Guard divisions, four Reserve brigades and many other smaller units. Total authorized personnel would shrink by only 38,500-to 640,000-because surviving combat units would be reinforced to permit their deployment within eight weeks of call-up and some new outfits would be formed. All combat components would be in the Guard, which would have eight divisions and 18 brigades on quick-response status. The active Reserve would consist...
...anonymity in the late 1940s. Ogilvy sent out salvos of press releases until, as he confessed, competitors complained that "nobody went to the bathroom at our agency without the news appearing in the trade press." Wells herself admits to "a staggering lack of modesty," but her agency has avoided outright flackery-if only because its partners were never quite obscure in the first place...
...generally agreed that the activities of the groups supported by the CIA were distinct from its hard-core intelligence functions and from major field operations-although occasionally the lines were blurred. The degree of outright CIA influence varied widely. In the case of the National Student Association-which has made the fullest disclosures-the influence was considerable. Leaders were selected by the CIA at the end of an all-expense-paid, 14-week international seminar; positions on international issues were carefully guided by well-informed arguments and background papers based on CIA information. On occasion, N.S.A. members were used...