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They're not the Wright brothers, they're not even the Wright sisters--the R. Wright '87 and Melissa W. Wright '87 are definitely on the right track. They are the only two Harvard undergraduates from among 105 students nationwide who were awarded prestigious Truman Scholarships last week...
...over the next four years, is annually awarded to students who have demonstrated a potential for leadership in government on the basis of their grades and participation in community service projects. Application essays and an interview are also required, said Norma R. Claytor, a staff member at the Truman Scholarship Foundations...
...Real Peace (1984); and in No More Vietnams, published this month (Arbor House; 237 pages; $14.95). The compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir; 3) to reassert the implacability of Communist adversaries and the consequent need to maintain a potent military posture; and 4) to prescribe a future course that would couple a strong defense establishment with a much enhanced...
Nixon sees the three decades of American engagement in Indochina as a litany of "too little, too late." He wishes Truman had forced the French to bring about an independent, non-Communist state. That having failed, he believes President Eisenhower ought to have sent in air support to relieve the French at Dien Bien Phu; as Ike's Vice President, Nixon says, he counseled that "our choice was to help the French now or be faced with the necessity of taking over the burden." He condemns President Kennedy for the overthrow of Diem, which he argues led to political instability...
...QUESTION OF WHO lies behind that panting voice is worthy of contemplation, and theories diverge greatly on this. Truman Capote, a perennial favorite, has recently been exonerated by the fact of his death If it is him, then he's calling from a long way away. A number of faculty members, including a sizeable portion of the English Department, have also been the object of suspicion. Suspicions also reflect the biases of the student body, since Ronald Reagan is accused at least twice as often as Walter Mondale, and three times more than Konstantin Chernenko, especially...