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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS MEANINGLESS consensus, however, is not as harmless as it looks. It has, in fact, the potential to undercut anti-war sentiment in two significant ways. It vindicates and humanizes supporters of the administration: See, they say with a complacent shrug, we're not so bad. We, too, oppose barbarism...
...tactic of mass annihilation (the military term is "depopulation") of women and children wasn't invented by William Calley or Ernest Medina or any of the other Song My protagonists. The killing of large numbers of noncombatants dates back to the advent of the bombing in 1965. At least two pilots in the Air Force and one in the Navy have admitted annihilating villages ("suspected VC hideouts") containing exclusively women and children. The only possible innovation that came out of Song My is methodological: napalm had been, up to then, the main weapon of depopulation...
...first time you've got students who suddenly see they may have to serve two years." Hochmuth said yesterday. "Of those, there must certainly be a majority who would choose to do so as officers...
...students in a typical class, Scovell said, 400 fall in the top third of the lottery list and are therefore liable to be drafted. Two hundred of these will be deleted for occupational or medical reasons, he added, and at least 100 of the remaining 200 would prefer two years as AROTC officers to two years as draftees...
...fast start when center Bill Corkery took a pass from John Riley and rifled the puck past goaltender Peter Prouex after a minute and a half of play Before the period was over, Harris had built the Harvard lead to 3-0 with scores on two short flips...