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...MOST REPUGNANT strain of conservative thinking that has surfaced publically at Harvard and elsewhere recently is the "Now let us mourn for Indochina" school of revised history. Norman Podhoretz has made this his new gospel, preaching on The New York Times Op-Ed page and in his latest book, Why We Were in Vietnam. Closer to home, members of the Conservative Club have endorsed the message in their newspaper. The Salient, and in small rallies...
University police officers will be wearing black strips over their badges to mourn the death of Officer Jesse E. Mixson yesterday. The 17-year veteran of the Harvard police received numerous commendations for service and also taught cardio-pulmonary resuscitation at University Health Services. He died of cancer...
Such social convictions cannot be changed by preaching. Yet it is fitting considering the frequent bleakness of the world of the jobless to mourn the nation's way of casually accepting increased unemployment as an unavoidable trade-off cost in the effort to achieve monetary stability and defeat inflation. News paper Columnist Russell Baker had the notion of that trade-off in mind a few years back when he wrote: "It is obvious that unemployment is an honorable form of service to the nation." The pity is that he spoke more truth than humor. -By Frank Trippett
Demonstrators will march to the Pentagon Monday; some of the protesters will silently approach the military complex through Arlington Cemetery, while others will carry banners and props across Memorial Bridge. The two groups will meet at the base of the cemetery, where they will "mourn the destructiveness of war." The ceremony will be "theater on a grand scale," Cloud said...
Horner, who visited Egypt in 1978, said she was "shocked by the violence of his death and mourn[s] the loss of a world leader in search of peace...