Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After seeing one civilian regime after another crumble, Sloan remembers becoming convinced that the only viable government was the South Vietnamese Army. South Vietnamsee soldiers are hard to communicate with, unlike Westerners they never say anything in a straight-forward fashion but instead drop hints about their real feelings. Sloan says that he tried to get through to them, to understand what they really wanted, but that in retrospect they seemed not unlike "the docile Negroes in the South, the Uncle Toms who have been tricked into going along with the system...
...real surprise though came earlier, when the pass-fail plan got the CEP's blessing in November. "We've acted so long on the assumption that it wouldn't be approved that we hardly know what to think or do, now that pass-fail is here," Henry R. Norr '68, president of the Harvard Policy Committee said recently. Norr and other veteran pass-fail warriors had been led to believe that the Faculty and its CEP were hostile to the fourth course idea and they have a hard time explaining just what went right this fall...
...team faces its first real test of the season today against the big guns of Army at West Point...
...President may, of course, opt for some sort of sharp escalation early next year to give the illusion that peace is on the way. But it is unlikely that the nation, as a whole, would buy such a performance. It is the Republicans who are exploiting Mr. Johnson's real vulnerability and if their purposely ambiguous pitch for peace sways a majority, they might even begin to think of non-military steps...
...debate before the Security Council meaningful at last. But this maneuver has precisely the opposite effect. Washington knows that a debate in the Security Council would offer this country a better opportunity to answer the Vietcong than in General Assembly discussions. But this U.S. stand merely illuminates the real reason President Johnson has chosen to ignore and stifle the Vietcong initiative to bring the war before the Assembly...