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...deception, sometimes deliberate, sometimes unintentional, has not ended. Two weeks ago, at a press conference called to justify the incursion into Laos, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr. displayed a hunk of the pipeline that carries gas from North Viet Nam down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They implied that it had been seized by the South Vietnamese during the current drive into Laos. Last week the Pentagon admitted that the piping had actually been brought back by South Vietnamese commandos after an earlier, unannounced raid. It "probably would have been better," Laird acknowledged...
...minute press conference at the Pentagon, Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr., a ranking member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that ARVN was racking up impressive kill ratios in Southern Laos and in Cambodia. Overall, the casualty totals for the first three weeks of the operation were, if ARVN figures are to be believed, 19,715 Communist dead v. 2,208 ARVN dead. U.S. casualties have been 40 killed and 34 wounded. Casualty rates aside, was ARVN stalled? No, said Vogt. The weeklong halt on Route 9 was a deliberate "pause" to give commanders a chance...
...number of Anthropology concentrators has grown in the last two years from roughly 60 to 110, making the department the 12th largest in the University. Vogt said that the University's lack of funds will make it difficult for the Department to hire additional Faculty and staff members...
Explaining the increase in the number of concentrators, Vogt said: "People are discovering that anthropology has something to say about the world in a cross-cultural way." He added that the field has gotten "good press" especially through the work of scholars like Margaret Mead and Claude Levi-Strauss...
...said that a "lively program" with possibilities for field work attracts undergraduates to the Department. Vogt said he had taken many students with him on field trips to Mexico and added, "I enjoy teaching undergraduates...