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...Corruption. It is generally acknowledged that Vietnam is corrupt. But there is no evidence that it is more corrupt than its South-East Asian neighbors. If it is, the reason may be that the war and wartime policies provided many opportunities for corruption...
...Hurrah for President Nixon! His recent announcement of plans to visit Red China in the interest of peace in South-east Asia has relegated Mr. Ellsberg and the expose of the Pentagon papers to ancient Chinese history...
...attention of the military to oil in Laos comes at the same time that the government of South Vietnam has delayed, from February to March or even later, invitations to petroleum companies to bid on offshore oil concessions. These concessions are located in the Gulf of Thailand and the south-east offshore region adjacent to the penal colony of Con Son. The Thien-Ky government has not yet determined if it will offer all 18 offshore leases in a block or whether it will stretch out the leasing over a period of months to the 21 contending companies, which...
There is the danger that these recommendations, however much enforced, may be too little too late. None of these suggestions are aimed, for example, at discrimination in awards, promotions and battle field assignments. And for many blacks, nothing short of an end to hostilities in South-east Asia can make any sense while the White House exercises "benign neglect of the racial issue" and ignores black needs and while Southern police continue to eliminate black problems with gunfire...
...options; the Administration refused to honor an employees' strike; radical students set up picket lines around University Hall; the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed a few more students the door; and a large majority of undergraduates-myself included-left pretty quickly for home, vacation, summer jobs. Meanwhile, in South-east Asia-all over Southeast Asia-the body counts went up by a few more thousand...