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...footage was drawn chiefly from public records and from the recollections of figures whose views are well known. The intent is to tell why the U.S. went to Viet Nam, how it lost a sense of purpose in being there, and how and why it left. The scope of the six-year, $4.6 million project is impressive: the production team obtained 94 hours of film-200,000 feet-from archives in eleven countries and conducted 5,000 transcript pages' worth of interviews. The principal reporter, Stanley Karnow, 58, first went to Viet Nam in 1950, when it was still...
...This was the civilized thing to do. When Aeroflot and other Eastern Bloc civilian airliners fly over restricted American airspace in order to test our response time, we scramble fighters and shoo them away, but we do not even consider shooting them down, for this is so outside the scope of international law and of our own morality that it would never become an issue...
Grave constitutional questions are sometimes posed by less than nation-shaking issues. Case in point: the first test of the scope of the Supreme Court's June ruling against the so-called legislative veto (Immigration and Naturalization I Service vs. Chad ha) is being raised by an anemic auction | of coal leases...
Isaac's supporters claim Harvard's failure to grant him tenure stemmed from the University's decision to restrict the scope of the Afro-Am department to exclude Isaac's fields of African study...
...academic freedom: The Nuclear Free Cambridge Act specifically excludes nuclear medical research and carefully limits its scope to work directed toward the creation of nuclear weapons or their delivery systems. Both Harvard and MIT have regulations against such research and neither would be affected by the legislation. It must also be remembered that nuclear weapons research is shrouded in tight secrecy which is a far cry from the free communication of ideas and information which is the ideal of academic inquiry...