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...ARVN armor on Route 9 was to have thrust 25 miles to Tchepone, where main branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail meet before snaking off into South Viet Nam and Cambodia...
TROUBLED by the slow pace of ARVN's thrust into Laos, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu made a painful decision early last week. He would have to put a new man in charge. At 7 one morning, he summoned Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, 41, his nation's most decorated and best-known soldier, to the presidential palace in Saigon. Then he told Tri that the job was his. The two men briefly discussed precisely how and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps commander Lieut. General Hoang...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's suggestion that it was "only a matter of time" before ARVN troops would drive north of the DMZ was designed to frighten Hanoi into keeping its reserve troops in place. But Hanoi's warning that such a thrust would bring China into the war seems to have ended threats of an invasion of North Viet Nam-a contingency that the U.S. would endorse only if the Lam Son forces were near annihilation...
...freshman U.S. Senator in 1954, Ervin thrust himself onto the front pages with a folksy anecdote underlining his contempt for his Communist-hunting Wisconsin colleague Joe McCarthy. According to Ervin, Uncle Ephraim Swink, a sick, arthritic mountaineer, was called upon to testify to his religious experiences at a revival meeting. Uncle Ephraim remained silent. Finally the minister said, "Brother Swink, suppose you tell us what God has done for you." Uncle Ephraim pulled his crippled body from his seat and replied, "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Said Ervin: "Mr. President, that is about what Senator McCarthy has done...
Which is of course to deflect the major thrust of the argument. The principle at stake is one of equal education-and if we've, theoretically at least, accepted that principle when applied to this country's minority groups it's about time it's extended to the female majority. Harvard, with its 10,000-man traditions, can offer no apology for its male-only past, but by implementing an equal admissions policy for the Class of '76, at least it doesn't commit itself to reenacting the sins of its fathers...