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Much of the news was bad: U.S. mobility and firepower did indeed pose difficult problems. But la Drang also demonstrated that Communist soldiers would stand and fight against the Americans; Hanoi had had considerable fears that they might not. Eventually, the jungle colloquium worked out an important new tactic: the use of bunkers manned by a small force to screen main-force units and inflict casualties on U.S. infantrymen while the main-force fighters escaped. The Communists have been using that tactic with considerable success ever since. Last month, for example, a company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ran into...
...Chicago last week, 145 theologians, church historians, priests and ministers gathered for the organizational meeting of the brand-new North American Academy of Ecumenists. For most of the participants, it was like a college reunion. Many had spent the previous week at an interfaith Colloquium on evangelism at Notre Dame. Others were veterans of the series of theological dialogues carried on by the Roman Catholic hierarchy with various U.S. Protestant churches. Still others had attended talks at the World Center for Liturgical Studies in Florida, the Packard Manse retreat house in Massachusetts, the Jesuits' John LaFarge Institute in Manhattan...
...bilateral arrangements. Thus, with the same economics-before-politics approach that was to lead a decade later to the Common Market, the U.S. helped pave the way to European cooperation. As Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, a founding father of the Common Market, observed at a Brussels anniversary colloquium last week, the U.S. showed "a clearer awareness of what Europe must do to save herself than many Europeans themselves...
...Black Arts Colloquium has sponsored poetry readings by under graduates, will bring back artists to speak to the group, and encourages black students with artistic talents to express themselves to a black audience through their own organization...
However, the Pierian Club, a literary group which Winston advises, and the upper division honors colloquium, which Winston and three other Wilson interns teach, are sending letters to Carmichael today, inviting him to speak...