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...that in the past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is the U.S., after all, as fallible in its aims and unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments abroad...
...outnumbered by the 480,000 Cypriots of Greek origin, unless he wants to face renewed invasion threats from Turkey without his Greek army support and most of the Greek officers who commanded his guard. There was, in fact, already talk in Nicosia of a new reconciliation program to allay Turk Cypriot fears...
Though the President has the utmost trust in Rusk, his departure would allay criticism of the Administration as effectively as McNamara's doubtless will -for awhile. Both are damned by dissidents as architects of the war. The all-purpose candidate for either post might well be former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, 48. A Republican who worked for Kennedy and Johnson and was tapped for duty by L.B.J. during the Arab-Israeli war last summer, his vigorous voice is still being raised in effective support of Johnsonian policies...
...projects (council houses) take a much larger percentage of whites than they do nonwhites holding similar jobs. And the NCCI claims to have evidence that where immigrants have been evidence that where immigrants have been housed, they are given the worst accommodation. According to officials, this was done to allay hostile reactions on the part of white residents...
Britain has found that it is not profitable to point a finger at us; instead she is showing herself willing to learn from our mistakes. She has awakened, but out of her slumber have risen passions and fears which may not be easy to allay. There is a hope, because the British are waking up to this danger...