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...immediate purpose of Lam Son 719 never was to "protect" withdrawing U.S. troops, even though that has been the longer-range justification advanced most often by the Administration. From the start, Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly...
...have been responsible for the largest number of breakthroughs since 1900, Deutsch and his associates concluded that "teams of social scientists seem likely to be the main source of major advances during the next decade," as they have been in the past 35 years. Supporting that contention was the parallel discovery that a handful of urban or university centers were responsible for a disproportionate number of the achievements. Chicago, Cambridge and New York accounted for one-half of all U.S. contributions. (Since 1930, the U.S. has been responsible for more than three-quarters of the breakthroughs on the list...
East Orange has many faces: the tree-lined streets and substantial houses of the well-heeled First Ward, the old, rundown frame houses of the Fifth Ward, the modern apartment buildings that tower over both. The citizens of East Orange lead parallel but unlinked lives. Some 55% to 60% of them are black, and black-white contacts are guarded. "I have the feeling that people don't quite trust one another,'' says Mrs. Dorothy Scull, a school board member. But there is more to their isolation from one another than race. Many of the homeowners feel that...
Mendelsohn hoped that the report would have an effect on Harvard and believed that the failure of students to take the CRR seriously is the result of the faculty's own-failure to adopt parallel measures for itself last year...
Fred Braniman, former Dispatch News Service International Correspond-ent in Laos, spoke on his personal experiences with victims of bombings. He described peace overtures made by the Pathet Lao and rebuffed by the U.S. Branfman said that the only parallel he could find for the present American actions in Laos was in the novel...