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Critics argue that U.S. efforts to isolate China have merely given the Communists a unifying and strengthening hate symbol-and spurred more subversion. Some regard the U.S. presence in Viet Nam as a particular blunder, because it may have weakened Viet Nam's historical role as a buffer against Chinese expansion. There is one theory that the U.S. should have let Ho Chi Minh unify Viet Nam and emerge as an anti-Chinese Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished...
...should play a less conspicuous role in the annual campaign at the United Nations against Peking's admission. Says former Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer: "The moral judgment implied in the blackballing of the largest nonwhite nation by the most powerful white nation is deeply insulting to the Chinese and irritating to many other people in the world." With or without U.S. lobbying, the vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking...
...quotes are not verbatim but are accurate to the best of my memory. Dean Price is well suited to his role in the purge. His practiced eye sees through the facade of a fight against ROTC and Harvard expansion and gets to the real core of the difficulty-misconduct, just like that of the Vietnamese and the Colombian students attacking Rockefeller, envious as they are of American riches. Norman Daniels...
Unhappily, the Black section is an isolated stroke of political awareness. An execrable essay entitled "A Perspective of the Causes and Concerns of Student Activism at Harvard" begins with the sentence, "A profound questioning of the role of the University in society and a re-evaluation of what it means to be a student within the university have engendered an unprecendented surge of student activity at Harvard." And it gets no better...
Philadelphia is a town that takes its Squaresville role seriously (". . . and second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia"). When I Am Curious (Yellow) opened last month, Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo turned I Am Furious (Purple) and denounced it as "unadulterated filth." The city council majority leader, George X. Schwartz, went further: "I call on ministers, rabbis and priests to call on their congregations to boycott this film. If this picture is continued, God knows what will come next in Philadelphia...