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Harvard's present arrangement with ROTC compromises the integrity of this University in several ways. In a university where academic departments are responsible to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the ROTC departments are ultimately responsible to the Pentagon. In a University which bans classified research, ROTC offers courses which cannot be taken without a security clearance. In a University where a full professorship is a widely-respected honor, military men become professors on the basis of no more than a recommendation from military...
Lyndon Johnson last week pondered one of the most critical decisions of his presidency-and he pondered it almost entirely alone. The question was how many more U.S. fighting men will be needed for the Viet Nam war. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, civilian policymakers at the Pentagon and State Department functionaries mulled over more than half a dozen plans, probably one from General William C. West moreland, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, calling for 206,000 troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. But there was a feeling that the debate was being conducted in a vacuum...
Natural Outgrowth. The company, which made its first computer in 1959 as a natural outgrowth of its business in office machines, has so far sold or leased $100 million worth of smaller series computers, including 55 NCR 590s bought by the Pentagon to travel around South Viet Nam in G.I. trucks keeping track of spare parts. NCR has also marketed $200 million worth of a secondgeneration computer known as the NCR 315, including one $16 million order from Japan's Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., which accounts for NCR's largest order...
...believe that he would not push for a speedy settlement in Southeast Asia. He realizes the costs of Vietnam and has admitted the shortsightedness of the policy his borther pursued before November, 1963. Kennedy knows the lessons of foreign adventurism and military overextension. And his past experience with the Pentagon and State Department means that he is unlikely to be hoodwinked in the future...
...course, even though our educational institutions can curb ROTC, they will not necessarily do so. Many universities are more than satisfied with the present arrangements. More than 100 institutions continue to maintain compulsory ROTC in the freshman and sophomore years, despite actual discouragement from the Pentagon, which views compulsory programs as inefficient. The B.U. faculty's uneasiness about the relationship between the education and the military is evidently not shared by many American educators...