Word: united
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This is not to say that within the group, the basic unit of College life, there is harmony. The group is the framework for thought and experience, but the members often disagree with each other. A black student told me recently that earlier this year the blacks suffered from strong differences within their ranks. In general, younger blacks wanted to take more radical action against the University, and older ones wanted to cool it, to wait and see if the University would come around to their position on the creation of an Afro-American studies program. But despite the tensions...
None of this would be possible without a viable Army ROTC unit on the Harvard campus. Harvard men would not have this opportunity to serve their country's armed forces with honor and distinction, as commissioned officers, in the tradition of Harvard excellence. Harvard as an institution would not be able to uphold its proud reputation for supplying its share of leadership to the broad spectrum of our national institutions...
...matter of withdrawal of physical support--classrooms and administrative offices--by the institution, it seems quite clear that no military department could continue to operate a unit under such circumstances...
...question of the reaction to withdrawing academic credit on the part of the other side of the ROTC partnership. In my considered judgment, the withdrawal of academic credit for Army ROTC courses at Harvard would not, of itself cause the Department of the Army to withdraw the ROTC unit from Harvard. It might, in combination with chronic low officer production and other deviations be enough to bring this to pass...
...says one officer. "I would even say overgenerous." Even so, the U.S. apparently feels that something more is still owed. Washington has offered to donate a $150,000 desalinization plant to the village for drinking water. With plenty of coffee, wine and cognac on hand, Palomares wants a bigger unit to provide water for irrigation. The plant in any case is yet to be built; the Spanish government, which owns a nearby beach-front inn where the drinking water is also brackish, has decided to build a large plant to serve the entire area. Meanwhile, to pacify Palomares, the government...