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...Lyndon Johnson, after promising "no wider war" during campaign against Barry Goldwater, wins landslide election victory...
...Sweet reasonableness" has not at last prevailed in the Vietnam negotiations, however. There is still a threat that "an unpleasant military surprise" awaits Americans in Vietnam in the next few days and that the U.S. plans to bomb Hanoi with B-52's. In the wider Southeast Asian frame, the Peking Review has carried a report that the U.S. supported regime in Bangkok has recently begun dropping "chemical bombs" and "plastic bags containing the eggs of insect pests" in three northern provinces of Thailand...
...under investigation to yield a cure for all kinds of cancer. But most are confident that mortality rates for the disease will continue to drop. Dr. R. Lee Clark, a member of the board charged by the President with developing a national plan to combat cancer, predicts that wider application of known treatments could reduce the overall cancer death rate between 15% and 25% in the next five years. Only one out of every three patients can now expect to live five years after diagnosis. If Clark's prediction is accurate, more than half could look forward to survival...
...candidacy, he argues, is not that darker side of the '60s, but the decade's loftier impulses: civil rights, equality, more open and humane government, the older and classically Democratic concern for the little man against special interests and corporations. In those enthusiasms he has had a wider following, and probably a firmer hold on the future, than his polls would indicate. It was Nixon who first declared that the election offered the clearest choice of the century?and McGovern quickly and happily agreed. Both candidates may have been right. What seems to have intervened is McGovern's personal failure...
Guinier has argued that requiring students to make Afro-American Studies a joint concentration with another discipline relegates it to a second class status. Contending that white universities have traditionally ignored black studies. Guinier concludes that it is necessary for serious students to take a wider range of courses in the subject taught from a black perspective." While Guinier has never defined "black perspective," it is clear from the appointments he has made that this term means that the instructor must be black and have a black nationalist ideology...