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...CITADEL...
...vital interest in the independence of the countries of North America and the Caribbean, of Western Europe and Japan. Even within the North American citadel, however, we have seen a country "go Communist," Cuba, without lethal consequences to our security...
Like a battering ram pounding an already crumbling citadel, the Khmer Rouge insurgents last week aimed new blows against the tottering Khmer Republic. On all of Cambodia's battlefields, government troops were falling back or launching unsuccessful counterattacks. Since the rebel offensive began in January, 5,000 of President Lon Nol's troops have been killed and 15,000 wounded. Rebel casualties are estimated to be higher, and civilian losses are considerable...
...before Lent began, Ronald Sobel became the first Jewish rabbi to enter the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York City citadel of Roman Catholicism. After he spoke, hundreds of congregants strode 15 blocks up Fifth Avenue to Sobel's Temple Emanu-El-something of a cathedral for Reform Judaism-to hear Monsignor James Rigney, rector of St. Patrick's parish...
...economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President's program is so complicated that you could not in good conscience act quickly on it. I believe that full and extensive deliberation on energy policy is essential." Despite presidential pressures for haste, that kind of deliberation is just what...