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Victory Claim. Obviously chary of capitulating to the demonstrators, Columbia officials seemed equally reluctant to regain control of their university. The students refused to quit their posts without a promise of general amnesty for all demonstrators-a condition that President Kirk rejected. Failure to take disciplinary action, Kirk insisted, would "destroy the whole fabric of the university community." But the school yielded on at least one important point. At the urging of New York City Mayor John Lindsay, it announced that it would temporarily suspend construction of the disputed gymnasium. Still the students refused to budge...
...they are still largely on the defensive, and in many places in a virtual state of siege. In all probability-regardless of Ho Chi Minh's response, or nonresponse, to Johnson's new terms-U.S. forces in coming months will have to continue their effort to regain the initiative on the ground. South Viet Nam's major population centers are still gravely menaced...
...mounting pressures. The reform harks back half a century in spirit to 1918, when Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proclaimed the self-determination of peoples and enabled Czechoslovakia to be born as an independent state. This time, Czechoslovakia was announcing its own self-determination-a determination to regain control of its destiny and shuck off the worst features of an alien Communist system...
...many of the rights that the students have demanded. Nasser promised that it would ensure, for example, complete freedom for Egypt's muzzled press, freedom of thought and an independent judiciary. There was only one catch. The constitution, Nasser declared, will not go into effect until the Arabs regain the lands lost to Israel...
...other seniors who will not make the trip South, Bo Jones and squash captain Rick Sterne, could eventually slip into the starting lineup. Jones has not played competitive tennis for Harvard since his freshman year, but Barnaby trusts him to regain his old form. Two sophomores, Larry Terrell and Eric Wise, also have a chance to make the first...