Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect be selling us out. No one wants peace more than those of us who must fight the war. Still, we realize that any peace reached must be a just one that meets the standards that sent us over here in the first place. We are willing to pay the price and see this thing through. We are looking for a man who will not throw out our sacrifices, but who will exercise our capabilities wisely and bring us to a just peace...
...France in the wake of Dienbienphu that finally propelled French arms out of Indo-China 13 years ago. Would Con Thien induce the same mood in the American public? "The enemy is fighting for American public opinion," says U.S. Commander General William C. Westmoreland, "and he is willing to pay a dear price to influence it. This is the way he expects to win the war-it is the only conceivable way he could...
...CONTINUE THE PRESENT STRATEGY. Those who support a continuation of the Administration's course argue that its policies have just begun to pay off. When the U.S. went into Viet Nam in force 30 months ago, its object was to avert an imminent Viet Cong victory. Now, says Westmoreland, "the enemy is in the worst posture he has been in since the war started." Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness. Nonetheless, the Communists have lost ten times more men than...
What stung the Federation's leaders most sharply, however, was the dean's assertion that TF's are not teachers, who exchange their services for pay, but primarily Ph.D. candidates whose teaching is a supplement to their education. The underlying premise of the Federation had always been that a teaching fellow is as much a member of the Faculty as a full professor. If a teaching fellow is merely a student picking up some financial aid as he learns, the Federation can hardly claim to be bargaining for a group of teachers working for Harvard...
...this sort of pressure could be the American Association of University Professors, a prestigious body whose national president is Clark Byse, professor of Law. In the past, the AAUP has concerned itself chiefly with academic freedom, confirming its action on salaries to publishing yearly rating of universities by comparative pay scales. But the teaching fellows believe that the AAUP is about to take an active interest in the situation of junior faculty. Federation representatives conferred with local AAUP officials last spring and again this fall, coming away from the meetings convinced that they had at least the Association's sympathy...