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...possible. Actually, I think it is not the case. In the first place, everyone knows that our entry into the Vietnam involvement did not come as a result of rational reflection -- that it was rather the result of a long exercise in national inadvertence--of a long series of partial decisions, none of them taken with any clear comprehension of the depths of involvement to which they were bringing...
Wednesday, King qualified his earlier statement, explaining that he really hadn't proposed the merger of peace groups with civil rights organizations; but he added that he would be active in both from now on. Despite this partial disclaimer, King has raised the touchy question of the rationale, not to mention the efficacy, of linking the two drives. His reasoning is sound...
...following is a partial list of organizations, now known to have served as Central Intelligence Agency "conduits," which have contributed to various Harvard programs. The list is compiled from Gifts to Harvard since Oct. 1, 1963. Humphrey Doermann's study extended back...
...whole truth can never be known, the partial observations that make up the commission's report are dreadful enough. In a 300-page book delivered last month, it offered the most exhaustive study of U.S. crime to be made in decades. It described a situation so bleak that it threatens the very foundation of the Great Society. It painted a picture so ominous that the implications have yet to be fully appreciated by legislator or layman. The overall crime rate has been spiraling dizzily year after year: it shot up 13% in 1964, 5% in 1965, another 11% last...
...partial account of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? Not at all. The Chinese ruler who acted thus was called Shih Huang Ti, the Emperor famed for constructing the Great Wall. In the 3rd century B.C., he forcibly united most of China around the northeastern state of Ch'in and established a tyrannical rule that was soon swept away in civil war. It would be risky to draw any neat lessons from this parallel between past and present. Perhaps the only sure thing to be concluded is that nothing in the world's oldest continuing...