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...ten-point paper, described by the Communists as an "overall solution to the South Viet Nam problem," was officially presented by the National Liberation Front delegate, Tran Buu Kiem. Clearly, it also reflected Hanoi's views. Compared with most previous pronouncements, the statement was refreshingly free of bombast. While Americans were still denounced as "imperialists" waging a "war of aggression," there was only one such reference, and it seemed almost pro forma. But for the first time the Communists mentioned a neutral postwar South Viet Nam that would maintain "diplomatic, economic and cultural relations" with...
There were other indications of growing impatience, both with wavering college presidents and radical student groups. At Cornell, the board of trustees ordered President James Perkins to implement a ten-point program that would protect the school against "tactics of terror." In Cambridge, a judge found all but four of 173 defendants guilty of criminal trespass during their occupation of a Harvard administration building last month. At the same time, Harvard undergraduates ignored the urgings of the S.D.S. and voted by a 3-to-l margin against resumption of their student strike...
...Convincer. In the group's hierarchy, Newton is flanked by his minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver, the ex-convict author of Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5), who is the presidential candidate of the multiracial Peace and Freedom Party. The code of the Panthers is a ten-point manifesto, written by Newton in 1966, that calls for complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro...
Seventh-ranked Columbia fell to Davidson, 61-59, in overtime last night in the semi-finals of the NCAA basketball Eastern Regionals. Davidson raced to a ten-point half-time lead, but still had to sink a last-second shot to force the game into overtime. Columbia's 7-0 center Dave Newmark led all scorers with 19 points...
...informant befriended several other members of the executive council and, as a result, was exposed to the detailed plans of the march. On the basis of the informant's greatly embellished version of PAC's plans, the Century Corporation's lawyers were able to obtain a ten-point injunction from a municipal judge on the morning of 23 June, which ordered the marchers to "restrain" from doing the ten things listed on the injunction. The injunction order was handed to Irving Sarnoff, PAC chairman, at the rally before the march began...