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...Mayday tribespeople made a brave try to shut down the administration of a vicious war, and we who were not there owe them honor and emulation. Their action will be a failure only if their spirit dies in Washington...
Table tennis, that vicious art of demolishing an opponent with reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...because it provides the chance for powerless individuals, to affect the course of political events. Individuals representing institutions-such as the intended speakers for the YAF teach-in-already have power: They control the media; they direct the armed forces. They have the "freedom" to support and direct a vicious imperialist war. They have the power, to suppress protest against this war. When these people use their power in neglect of the people they officially represent, they must be stopped. The real issue, then, is finding the most effective means of stopping them. We may question the efficacy of stopping...
...obvious net gain for Peking. But the Chinese Communists are not about to respond to any attempt to improve relations so long as the war in Indochina continues. The U.S., in fact, has once again replaced Russia in Peking's lexicon as "the world's most vicious imperialist...
...month, the Saigon troops were quickly forced to retreat to the relative safety of South Vietnam. Even Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird had to admit Wednesday that the South Vietnamese had been forced to cut short their invasion because of North Vietnamese resistance, which he curiously described as "vicious and violent...