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...events of the past three years, not the past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown little initiative in trying to halt inflation, race riots, and the war in Vietnam. Regarding Vietnam, the primaries did not show that most voters want the United States to abandon the struggle against Hanoi and the Vietcong. They merely want what Americans have wanted in the past: quick favorable results...
Some civil rights strategists are beginning to wonder aloud whether the time has not come to abandon demonstrations altogether-in Randolph's words, to "shift from the streets to the conference room." Many suspect that Negro protest marches may have lost the effectiveness that they undoubtedly once had and, indeed, may only foment white hostility. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League last week reported that in 1966 Ku Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban...
...cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...same time, grants the railroads some relief from government control. Under this proposal, the railroads would be able to set their own rates in areas where they compete (the government would still set rates where one railroad has a monopoly). And they would be allowed to abandon unprofitable spur lines...
...whole, Communist terrorism appears to be waning in Latin America. For one thing, the hemisphere's major Communist leaders agreed at last January's Tricontinental Conference in Havana to abandon their violent revolutionary line in favor of the via pacifica, which calls for subtle infiltration of Latin American governments and cooperation with other leftist parties in United Fronts. For another, Communist subversion during the past year has suffered severe setbacks in three major target countries-Peru, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Still, in other places Communist operations are neither very pacifica nor subtle. Items...