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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more forays to spike any Communist guns below the North Viet Nam border-as the Israelis did with the Syrian artillery atop the Golan Heights. U.S. military doctrine holds that a force assumes a defensive position only when it is not strong enough to take the offensive, wants to use its main strength for an assault elsewhere, or is stalling for time. None of these arguments seems to apply to Con Thien. Still, a civilian specialist notes that the "setpiece assault" is causing the North "a tremendous effort, tying up a tremendous amount of manpower and transport at terrible cost...
...which takes the form of sticking up for and explaining away anything, howsoever outrageous, which Negroes, individually or collectively, might do." Distinction must be made between "the vast Negro underclass, a disorganized, angry, hurt group easily given to self-destructive violence, and the radical, nihilist youth [that seeks to use the underclass for] apocalyptic confrontation with white society." The differentiation "means facing up to some of the realities of life in that class that liberals have been notoriously unwilling to acknowledge...
...Shah worries more about water than about criticism. "There is just not enough of it," he says. To make use of what there is, he has already built six major dams; eleven others are under construction. With intensive irrigation, the Shah believes that he could triple Iran's present arable land-now only 10% of its total area-and produce enough food to sustain a population of 75 million. To do so, however, will require more water than Iran's rainfall and rivers can provide, and the Shah intends to get it from the sea. He is negotiating...
...government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet, and when the monsoon came, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan came out and invited Tri Quang inside, holding an umbrella...
Finally, the Business School would turn over approximately 5000 square feet of the new building to the Harvard Cooperative Society in a lease arangement for use as the new Business School Coop. The existing Coop there is in the basement of Gallatin Hall...