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...home, the long-quiescent dove-hawk debate broke out anew. A dozen religious leaders wrote to Lyndon Johnson to express their regret that he is sanctioning the bombing of targets "in or near residential sections of Hanoi, even if many civilians die." Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Vance Hartke of Indiana called on Johnson to stop the bombing unilaterally. On the other hand, South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell...
...born in India with metronomic regularity. This month the population soared over the 500-million mark, prompting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to complain that her task is a lot like "building a house on land that is constantly flooded." Having just completed a "family-planning fortnight" to sell anew the slogan that "A small family is a happy one," the government-which has been endorsing birth control for 36 years-is still looking for ways to make this revolutionary idea catch fire across the land...
...would be pleasant to believe that the Church is stirring anew and that the Divinity School can continue to participate joyously and effectively in its work," he said. But he had only qualified confidence in the Church's ability to lead a revival...
...getting mighty hard to tell the new craters from the old," remarked a pilot returning from the battered Panhandle. Cratered anew were the Quang Khe missile complex, the Due Tho storage area, and a spread of staging areas, oil dumps and antiaircraft sites. Though flak has thinned considerably in the region, two U.S. planes were shot down. As one pilot's parachute was buffeted by tricky wind currents, his anxious wingman radioed to ask him how he was doing. "Swinging, man," came the reply...
...motorcade route were screaming for freedom, carrying banners demanding "Independence totale," "Vive la liberte," and in English, "French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds of steel-helmeted troops and cops into the streets, and forcing De Gaulle to restrict his tour of the city to a 15-minute whisk along the heavily guarded Boulevard de Gaulle...