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...distribution also exposed more students to a wider range of political opinions, and specifically radical opinions, not only at the dinner table, but in late night roommate bullsessions...
...authors−Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church−Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Laird and Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow, ended with a modification in the amendment's preamble. The original text included the passage: "In order to avoid involvement of the U.S. in a wider war in Indochina and to expedite the withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam . . ." The revised opening reads: "In concert with the declared objective of the President of the U.S. to avoid the involvement of the U.S. in Cambodia after July 1, 1970, and to expedite the withdrawal...
...Shareholders' Committee for Corporate Responsibility, authorized to spend one year investigating and increasing the company's contributions "to the social welfare of the nation"−such as its efforts to produce safer and nonpolluting cars. The critics argued that G.M.'s management should respond to a wider constituency−not only shareholders and suppliers, dealers, employees and customers, but everyone who breathes the air that cars pollute...
...beyond comprehension. In search of that illusory turning point, that single decisive confrontation that for years has confounded American military strategists in Southeast Asia, Mr. Nixon has consciously chosen to disregard the lessons of recent history and threatens to involve this country in a still wider war. In the context of existing concern, his failure to consult congressional leaders is indefensible...
WELL before Richard Nixon told the U.S. of his conviction that "the time had come for action," 20,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were across the Cambodian border and deep into a suddenly wider war. The day before the President went on the air, an 8,700-man South Vietnamese force accompanied by 50 American advisers had plunged into the Parrot's Beak. The next morning, barely two hours before Nixon was to begin his speech, an 11,500-man task force, spearheaded by 2,000 troopers of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile) helicoptered into...