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OVER 2000 Harvard and Radcliffe students and professors will begin a day-long "fast for peace" this afternoon to demonstrate their outrage over present American policies in Viet Nam. It would be foolish to believe that the fast will have any measurable impact on the American war effort, but the demonstration is nevertheless likely to have several constructive effects and should be supported...
...Army's own routine reports on the action at My Lai should have aroused suspicion. As related by the Army's Stars and Stripes. "U.S. infantrymen had killed 128 Communists in a bloody day-long battle." That large an action, rare at the time, normally would call for a detailed report. The former information officer who wrote that report, Lieut. Arthur Dunn, 27, said he was puzzled at so many enemy dead and so few ? only three ? weapons reported found...
...Corporation met for the first time since the Faculty's ROTC vote, but after the day-long meeting none of the Corporation members would say what--if any--action they had taken...
...morning after the telecast, Nixon gathered his Cabinet and their wives at the Shoreham for a day-long briefing on the problems the new Administration will face. The wives were invited, Nixon explained, because "I want them to be there on the takeoffs-so that they may avoid a crash landing a little later." (Some of the wives dutifully took notes.) Meanwhile, Luci Johnson Nugent started her opposite number, Tricia Nixon, and an entourage of 33 children aged six to 27-all of them offspring of the incoming Cabinet-off on a VIP tour of Washington that included lunch...
...knife, gun and mugging victims in the emergency room of the County Hospital, or walked the brawling bar beat with patrolmen. Shaken by their experiences, the students retreated for a day of barbecue and Fourth of July fun at the Franciscan Order's comfortable Casa de Paz y Bien (House of Peace and Good Will) in suburban Paradise Valley. But each evening and in one day-long concluding session, Father Gavin divided them into small groups, confined them to a room for tension-producing "sensitivity training" in which the only conversation permitted was the emotional reaction to their experiences...