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U.N. Ambassador Goldberg came to Harvard three months after MacNamara’s refusal to debate war critics provoked the wild demonstration that embarrassed the university and delighted the left. The challenge to SDS was to make Goldberg’s visit as successful an expression of anti-war sentiment as MacNamara’s had been. But this time the officials got smart: the challenge to debate was accepted, and SDS was faced with the problem of the diversion of anti-war sentiment from direct protest into a verbal confrontation in which the administration might come out unscratched.

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