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Eleven of Harvard's Asian experts have sent a telegram to President Nixon opposing his expansion of the war into Cambodia and urging him to withdraw American troops from Southeast Asia.
"We are deeply worried by the expansion of the war," the message says. "We are also distressed by the assumption, underlying your decisions, that we may become a second-rate power if we do not win a military victory in Vietnam."
"On the contrary," it concludes, "... real victory for the United States lies in a speedy military disengagement from Indochina."
Signers of the statement-including John King Fainbank, Francis Lee Higgins Professor of History, and Edwin O. Reisohaner, University Professor and former Ambassador to Japan-released the text at a press conference yesterday after sending it to Nixon and Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Some of the other signers-who make up all the Asian scholars now at Harvard-are Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economies: Benjamin I. Schwartz, professor of History and Government; and Jerome A: Cohen, professor of Law.
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