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...possibility of armed conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. loomed so large. This time the arena of conflict was half a world away in the Gulf of Tonkin, rather than 90 miles from the U.S. mainland, and this time, fortunately, there was no deadline ultimatum requiring immediate response. The feeling that the worst was past was reinforced by Patolichev's nonchalant response to a newsman's question: Was President Nixon's May 22 summit visit to Moscow still on? "We never had any doubts about it. I don't know why you asked." There were...
...determined by students at different campuses--is not a strike against the universities. It is a strike against the war. Classes need not be cancelled, exams need not be forgotten, but students here and across the country must interrupt their placid college lives to deliver once again the ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive protest at home...
PALC and Afro issued the ultimatum after holding a joint strategy committee meeting yesterday evening. Clement Cann '74, and Afro spokesman, said last night that the ultimatum had been issued "to prevent the Corporation from stalling until the end of the year." This delay cannot continue to go on," he said...
...years ago, in an escalation of similar magnitude. American ground troops invaded Cambodia. Antiwar feeling on American campuses coalesced into a national student strike. That strike, joined in a moment of crisis, delivered an ultimatum to the American government: you cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive disruption at home. The ultimatum was successful: the invading force withdrew. American students catalyzed a national movement that helped to save the lives of Americans. Vietnamese, and Cambodians. The ever-rising trajectory of the war began to turn downward...
...since the Cambodian invasion has the Nixon government's aggression in Asia so urgently demanded protest from the American people. The antiwar feeling that coalesced into a national student strike two years ago delivered an ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive disruptions at home. This ultimatum was instrumental in foreign the American invading force to withdraw and in precluding the use of American ground troops in Laos...