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...Cambodia's broad flatlands, ARVN commanders could wage a conventional, European-style war of maneuver, using textbook tactics that the Communists chose not to test in determined combat. Only four days after Nine Dragons began, ARVN General Ngo Dzu's armored columns had effortlessly swept light Viet Cong forces from the towns of Takeo and Kompong Trach and the key ports of Kep and Kampot. Equally facile was ARVN Task Force 318's high-speed dash 75 miles down Highway 1 toward Phnom-Penh. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken joined General Tri as he directed the drive alternately...
When he needs it most, a President often finds himself least equipped with information. A former member of the Kennedy Administration contends that in the year before the Tonkin Gulf incident, the Administration found itself helpless when it needed to weigh the Buddhist uprisings that preceded the fall of Ngo Dinh Diem. In the pressure of crisis, the Government could find no experts who were capable of appraising why such an apparently trivial series of events came to have such overwhelming importance. While U.S. sophistication about Southeast Asia has inevitably grown since then, intelligence is still based on an uneven...
Others who appeared at the rally included Chicago Conspiracy defendants John Froines and Abbie Hoffman, women's liberationist Florence Lanscomb, Vietnamese graduate student Ngo Vinh Long '68, and the Boston cast of Hair...
...evening-"action-oriented"-workshops begin at 7 p.m. and include such topics as Influencing Washington Policy-Making, the University and the War, and Answering Repression. The spectrum is broad; the Vietnamization workshop includes both Ngo Vinh Dong, a Vietnamese student at Harvard, and Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government; Economy and Imperialism includesboth Wassily W. Leontief. Lee Professor of Economics, and Alan Gilbert, a graduate student active...
...tentative list of speakers includes: Michael Kelly, SWP candidate for governor of Massachusetts; Carol Lipman, SMC national secretary: Ngo Viuh Dong: Engene J. McCarthy: Julian Bond. black Georgia Democrat: and Florence Lascombe of Women's Liberation...