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The Pentagon was appalled that no full mobilization of U.S. manpower was ordered, and that their suggestions for committing up to 750,000 troops as soon as they could be assembled were ignored. "Gradualism was the classic mistake of the McNamara crowd," sums up one Pentagon officer. Says another: "The...
Michael Hurd, a 19-year-old sophomore at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, sprang to his feet and hurled his chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior...
Search for Alternatives. Like any good drawing, the draft lottery was no respecter of persons or odds. President Nixon's son-in-law, David Eisenhower, whose birthday came up 30th, is almost certain to be drafted. Harvard Senior Joseph Blatt learned on the same day that he was one...
Mao fancies himself the champion of Marxist purity, combatting the "revisionist" heresies of Moscow and Belgrade. Yet his expositions of dialectics are sometimes primitive, to say the least. In a speech in Hangchow in 1965, Mao tried to explain the complex Hegelian-Marxist concept of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" by explaining...
Out of this certitude, Yahya is about to undertake the most fundamental political changes in Pakistan since Britain granted it independence 22 years ago. On Jan. 1, such political activities as rallies and speeches will once again be permitted. By June, electoral rolls are to be brought up to date...