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Like last year's Tet offensive, the present Communist attacks are clearly designed to embarrass the U.S. forces-which have been the target of most of these assaults-cause heavy casualties and demonstrate that the Communists can still stage dramatic attacks on the big cities of South Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh thereby hopes to test the mettle of the young Nixon Administration by rekindling dissatisfaction with the war in the U.S., and to strengthen his bargaining hand in Paris. As the attacks continued on the President's return from his European tour, the country waited...
...itself as a threat to peace?a new source of fuel for the already flaming arms race and a potentially voracious consumer of resources urgently needed for a lengthening catalogue of domestic ills. Beyond that, the critics contend, there are reasons to doubt that an ABM, in its present state of technology, would
...sure of its intent, the Kremlin has reportedly planned a $25 billion program that would buy more than 5,000 Galoshes. U.S. intelligence has assumed that Galosh is an inferior missile supported by relatively old-fashioned mechanical radars and hence of no major concern to the West at present. Recently, though, Defense Secretary Laird has indicated that the Russians are working on new components. German military sources talk of a Russian ABM in the 50-to 60-megaton range...
Denver's high-scoring line of center Tom Miller and wings George Morrison and Don Thiessen will present the biggest defensive dilemma for the Crimson tonight. The trio produced 62 of D.U.'s 140 goals in regular season play, and are the team's top three scorers...
...this was the method used to select their Ministers of Information; it did not mention that this is an old and honorable method of choosing leaders, having been practiced by the ancient Greeks. Who can doubt that ten Harvard students chosen at random would not be superior to our present HUC? John W. Gorman...