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...distinct possibility exists that M. I. T. president Johnson will call the police to stop some of the NAC actions. "We here at M. I. T. will take whatever action is necessary to stop these totalitarian tactics from destroying the Institute," he wrote to the M. I. T. General Assembly last Wednesday...
Trying to buy peace from a totalitarian regime is analogous to dealing with an extortionist. By offering South Viet Nam, we may have peace for a short time, but we will soon find ourselves faced with the same problem again, only this time the price will be even greater...
...your fall offensive succeed splendidly." "It was too good to pass up," says White House Communications Director Herb Klein. Nixon summoned Vice President Spiro Agnew for a half-hour meeting, after which Agnew told the press that the M-day leaders "should openly repudiate the support of the totalitarian government which has on its hands the blood of 40,000 Americans." For the protest impresarios to ignore the Hanoi letter, said Agnew, "would bring their objectives into severe question." Dong and Agnew each made a tactical error. The Communists, obviously misunderstanding American politics, damaged the M-day cause...
...novel opens, Martha, in her thirties and a white refugee from colonial Africa, is wandering through a dislocated London where cellars are damp and paint is blistering and wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government undergoes, the poor never escape that world, this novel reflects Orwell's paternal influence. Politics, particularly the opposition politics of the Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing...
There is, of course, criticism of various aspects of U.S. policy and concern for the suffering of the Vietnamese. But the many Asians who are interested in democracy do not want the U.S. to "just get out" on totalitarian terms, student agitators notwithstanding. William C. Parker Jr. '62 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia