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College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be eserved for those cases where men wilfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...bombings of North Viet Nam also aroused doubts-moral questions that would persist even though the bombing was halted as abruptly as it began. At My Lai, most Americans believe, a handful of atypical G.I.s were acting "illegally" when they slaughtered several hundred Vietnamese civilians. Last week American bomber pilots were killing Vietnamese civilians-who in this case were fiercely defended by SAM missiles-but now it was official U.S. policy, ordered by the Commander in Chief...
Peking's Foreign Ministry: "Should the U.S. Government disregard the desire of the people of Viet Nam and obdurately persist in its war of aggression, the Chinese people will, as always, resolutely perform their internationalist duty and give all-out support and assistance to the Vietnamese people till complete victory is won." Premier Chou En-lai said that the renewed bombing could endanger the improved Chinese-American relations...
...this week, the 132 member nations of the General Assembly Budgetary Committee will vote on a volatile issue: a request from the U.S. to reduce its contribution to the organization's regular budget from 31.5% to 25% beginning in 1974. Should the committee vote no and should Washington persist in its announced intention, the U.S. could theoretically lose its vote in the General Assembly after being in arrears for two years (although in the 1960s when the Russians and French refused to pay for peacekeeping operations they disapproved of, they still kept their vote...
...explanation, suggests Helmreich, may be that "children who are sick more often are more isolated from others of their own age and so they tend to use adults as their models." This may make them pursue difficult goals early in life, so that they establish habits of striving that persist to adulthood...