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...most cases, it is hard to make a plausible argument against the University's holdings. We know, for example, that a small portion of Harvard's money is invested in Pan Am-and that. Pan Am makes a small portion of its profit by shipping dead servicemen home from Vietnam. But it does not necessarily follow that Harvard must dump Pan Am or face charges of war profiteering. To ask that would require a highly simplified and unrealistic view of the situation, one in which Harvard's tiny bole of shares could control Pan Am policy and Pan Am could...
...less friendly to the U.S. than in former times, apologized for the attack but testily suggested that the embassy "ponder such legitimate grievances" as the Plaza Miranda demonstrators voiced. Presumably he was alluding to often repeated charges that U.S. firms plunder Philippine mineral resources and that U.S. servicemen accused of local crimes are sometimes shipped home before they can stand trial. Nonetheless, when another band of protesters formed a picket line at the embassy three days later, police quickly dispersed them...
...They started cropping up when a group of young newsmen raised the specter of censorship. Basically, they charged interference with the so-called McNamara Doctrine of 1967, in which the then Defense Secretary stressed that servicemen "are entitled to the same unrestricted flow of information as all other citizens." The officers who oversee AFVN claim that the newsmen were confusing censoring with editing. As is almost always the case, neither side is entirely right. But the brass certainly made matters much worse by some clumsy counterattacks...
...international affairs derives from his peripatetic years as Vice President. So it was only a matter of time until Nixon pinned wings on his own Vice President. Last week Spiro Agnew, his wife Judy, Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, ten newsmen and a score of aides and Secret Servicemen boarded Air Force Two to begin a 25-day, 37,000-mile tour of Pacific and Asian countries...
...have heard similar, though smaller reports from returned servicemen-not rabid peaceniks but "average American boys" who defend their sickening conduct. I have done nothing about these accounts, and God knows what my guilt is. Am I the only...