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...aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well; the enemy is tiring; if only we persist in the present course, there will be victory." Continued McGovern: "The new Commander in Chief must grasp what his predecessor learned to his sorrow-that in any continuance of the war in Viet Nam lies the seed of national tragedy and the certainty of personal political disaster...
...rocket and mortar fire continued to pound up and down South Viet Nam and the Communists' post-Tet offensive of 1969 ended its third week, it bore some superficial resemblances to its predecessor at Tet last year. There was scarcely a major city or military center in the country that had not suffered some enemy fire. The numbers of provincial capitals that came under attack this year and last were identical: 29. "If you plotted the action by throwing up darts at a board," said one U.S. officer, "they'd look about the same." Outwardly the most distressing...
STOCK MARKET. During his campaign, Nixon stirred much criticism by promising an end to "heavyhanded bureaucratic regulatory schemes" for policing the securities business. Nonetheless, Hamer Budge, new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has stressed that he will combat malpractices as vigorously as his activist predecessor, Manuel Cohen, who has praised Budge. A judge from Idaho, Budge is particularly eager to protect the interests of small investors...
...voicelessness of the faculty only aided Kirk's assumption of power. Under Kirk's predecessor. Nicholas Butler, the various departments and professional schools increased their self-centered autonomy. No faculty body was broad enough to seriously challenge major administrative decisions. Divided into three branches, the undergraduate faculty, lacked even a joint senate in which to voice complaints. Arbitrary administration and an inactive faculty voice made hope of changing university policy in "normal" channels dismally dim. By then the wall was ready for the stick...
...president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into extensive new operations in Egypt, the Congo and South America, and playing East against West by bargaining for crude oil from both the Soviet Union and the U.S.'s Jersey Standard...