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Another University rule, that the Dean's office must have a complete list of officers and members, may be re-evaluated this year. Last summer, the American Council of Education, one of the nation's largest and most respected organizations of university leaders, urged colleges and universities to stop keeping lists of students participating in undergraduate political organizations. The Council's new policy was a direct challenge to the House Committee on Un-American Affairs, which in the 1966 summer subpeonaed membership lists of leftwing student political groups from Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley...
...running at only 3,500. One result has been a decline in terrorist incidents from 2,700 to 1,700 a month. While estimates of either side's effective control over the populace have always been suspect, the Administration figures that the South Vietnamese civilians under guerrilla rule now total some 25% of the country's 17 million people (v. more than 40% under outright Viet Cong control or in sharply contested areas at the beginning of 1965). A telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities...
Wrong Residents. Gibraltarians feel that life under British rule is far freer and more prosperous than life in Franco's Spain, have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population...
...Viet Nam has its own cruel rule: after any lull, the fighting resumes with much greater ferocity than before...
Triangles can be as troublesome in politics as they are in romance. Thus, when a triumvirate of more or less equal members took over as Greece's new government after a military coup last April, it was almost inevitable that sooner or later the rule of three would be replaced by the rule of one strong man. Last week most Greeks agreed that Colonel George Papadopoulos, 48, was that...