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...singular and well-observed feature of war is for the view in retrospect to depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers which at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects which at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the last 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl Harbor and Pusan--not to mention Jerusalem and Tel Aviv--sufficiently establishes the point...
Five Principles. Kiselev's effusions were typical of the five-day prepackaged charade on Manhattan's East River. Moscow had demanded the convening of the 122-member Assembly, ostensibly to break the Middle East impasse. For its part, the Johnson Administration opposed the U.N. session from the outset, correctly anticipating that it would accomplish nothing and that the Communists intended it to be a propaganda spectacular. Once confronted with the inevitability of the session, the U.S. did use the occasion for extensive diplomatic lobbying by Secretary Rusk. He saw many of the foreign officials privately, and even conferred secretly...
...State Labor Relations Board has binding jurisdiction only over cases arising from "industry and commerce." Thus, Harvard, as a non-profit organization is not bound by any of the state board's decisions or rulings. Harvard's lawyers, the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, mentioned at the hearing's outset that Harvard was not waiving any of its rights...
...Bunting's position within the hierarchy, then, has pushed upon her duties which might be more efficiently handled by her subordinates. But the furor over apartments which resulted in the hunger strike developed not just because Mrs. Bunting was thrust into the conflict at its outset, but because her position has been poisoned in the past by her own terrible public relations sense. She has shown a gift for alienating students; her conception of her job has involved her, time after time, in altercations which have reduced students' confidence in her and cast her in an unfavorable light...
...provinces that comprise I Corps -Walt had the task of stabilizing South Viet Nam's queasiest territory. The region was plagued by the country's most aggressive guerrillas, threatened with the massive cutting edge of well-armed North Vietnamese divisions and abroil with political dissidence. From the outset, Walt gave priority to winning over the civilians and holding the villages...