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In addition, 23 seniors plan to apply for a IV-D deferment, reserved for divinity students or practicing ministers; 112 students will request occupational deferments; and 45 students will attempt to petition for conscientious objector status. Another 60 students will try to join either Vista or the Peace Corps which...
The petition, in support of which Professor Reischauer addressed a letter to his colleagues on the Faculty, declares that "the earliest possible achievement of a negotiated settlement should be a primary objective of American policy in Vietnam." The wording here is deliberately ambiguous. Our own position is that there is...
The Ad Hoc Committee's petition also urges de-escalation of the war. On this matter Professor Reischauer's in-consistency is somewhat less blatant, for the scholars' statement does include a suggestion that U.S. policy ought to "show a capacity for innovation of a de-escalatory nature." But Reischauer...
Finally, the Ad Hoc Committee's petition calls for the participation of the National Liberation Front in the future government of South Vietnam, while the Tuxedo Park delegation does not so much as hint at this possibility. The phrasing of the statement, in fact, leads one to suspect that in...
In the petition Reischauer argues that the Administration's conduct of the war has not been sufficiently directed toward the earliest possible attainment of a peaceful settlement. In the Tuxedo Park statement, he and his colleagues declare that the American record in Asia is "a remarkably good one, worthy of...