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General Note: 1962-1975 / "The National Catholic Journal" / Earlier title: Hard Times / Later Title: Sevendays (or Seven Days).

Publication: November 1972

General Note: Perspective
The Cruel Reconciliation by David Horowitz
Notes on the Nixon Crisis: Yankees and Cowboys by Carl Oglesby
McGovern and the Military by Richard F. Kaufman

Hard Times
Japanese Colonialism in Appalachia by James Ridgeway
The Indonesian Connection by Steve Weissman
Women by Women's News Collective
La Raza Unida Comes Together by Rodrigo Reyes

The Rand Papers
Introduction

Behind the Policy Makers: RAND and the Vietnam War by avid Landau
1. The Ikle Memorandum
2. The Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Project

Looking Backward: RAND and Vietnam in Retrospect by Anthony Russo

War in the Back Pages by Tom Oliphant
Capitalist Realism by Norman Rockwell by Marshall Singer

Culture/Counter Culture
Poor Derek's Almanac by Derek Shearer
The Late Night Show from Munich: A Review by Peter Collier

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Citation: Ramparts, 421Serial46484. No Date, Jim Dingeman Vietnam Conflict Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=421Serial46484, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 421Serial46484, Jim Dingeman Vietnam Conflict Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive