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...caught the U.S. by surprise. Now the Kennedy Administration finds itself hard up against its most urgent domestic crisis. Georgia-born Secretary of State Dean Rusk labeled it "one of the gravest issues that we have had since 1865." In a Memorial Day speech at the Gettysburg battleground, Vice President Lyndon Johnson said: "The Negro today asks justice. We do not answer him, and we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil when we reply to the Negro by asking 'Patience...
Positive Way. The United Nations' special envoy to the Middle East, Dr. Ralph Bunche, last week visited the republican areas of Yemen as part of the U.N. effort to prevent the Arkansas-sized nation from becoming an international battleground. Yemen had delayed Bunche's visit until an Egyptian armored column could seize the formerly royalist-held town of Marib, and then exhibited it to Bunche as evidence of republican control of the country. After a 60-minute session with Yemen's Strongman Abdullah Sallal, Bunche declared, "I was most impressed by his earnestness, sincerity, strength and seriousness...
...struggle that began with the U.S. blockade of Cuba is far from over. But the U.S. took a firm stand and the Russians retreated with abject haste. That fact will be felt on every cold war battleground. At any number of points, Khrushchev can, of course, try to reverse his initial retreat by a counterblow, but any possible move will be harder for him than before the Cuban adventure...
...witness was Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, 36, who testified for twelve hours. More than anyone else, Pritchett is responsible for keeping Albany (where about 1,000 demonstrators, Negroes and whites, have been arrested since December) from turning into a bloody battleground. A tough (220 Ibs.) but affable professional, Pritchett has won the respect of both sides in the Albany dispute; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. thinks that Pritchett is the best Southern police chief he has ever met. Says Pritchett: "I'm Southern through and through. I'm conscious of my roots here, and they go deep...
These next two months may prove to be among the most exciting in Massachusetts' long and colorful political history. The battleground on Tremont Street is only the beginning...