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Lloyd C. Elam, a nationally-known psychiatrist who is president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., was awarded a Doctor of Letters. His citation: "For the medically underprivileged this selfless physician has resourcefully employed modest means to gain large ends...
This approach suits the temperament of his star, Debbie Reynolds, who is a model of cool, scrubbed-up efficiency rather reminiscent of the Old Dutch cleanser ads. And does she work! It is as if she were performing some selfless public service that precluded the display of any private pleasure. She sings well, but without entrancement. She dances nimbly, but without any vivifying personal style. She acts acceptably without creating a character...
...present. But we should extend them the courtesy of acknowledging how reasonable these claims seem when compared to their nonsensical view of the past. If it appears, as Nixon had the gall to assert in January, that our involvement in the war was "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations," it is because Hanoi and the PRG have kept the U.S. from stablizing an illegitimate rightist regime in the South. America has gained nothing, while the PRG has gained official recognition as a legitimate administration with a right to maintain armed forces on its territory...
...said, had "the full support" of Thieu, and he pledged that the U.S. still recognized Thieu's regime as "the sole legitimate government of South Viet Nam." He praised the 2,500,000 Americans who had fought in the war for taking part "in one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations...
Americans must not be lulled into self-congratulation by the President's assertions that American involvement in Vietnam has been "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations:" our part in the ravagement of Indochina and the sacrifice of Asian and American lives can never be explained away by our willing support of a string of corrupt regimes. Now that the fighting is about to stop, we must urge Congress to turn off the military pipeline to Thieu, to insist on the release of political prisoners, and to prevent further American intervention in the political future...