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Many U.S. citizens think of the U.N. as a club or civic organization for those nations that believe in liberty, justice and a better life. Aren't these principles incorporated in the U.N. charter? Now we learn that Egypt, Ghana and Guinea have deserted the U.N. effort to stabilize the Congo, and that Russia refuses to help pay the U.N. Congo bill. We don't understand. If these countries won't support the club, why are they kept in? We suggest a tough resolution by our country, as aggressive and demanding as the Soviets have been, asking...
...pressed close to the stage, waving huge Goldwater placards. "This country," said Goldwater, "is being caught up in a wave of conservatism that could easily become the phenomenon of our time. Nobody knows for sure its present strength or its future potential. But every politician, newspaperman, analyst and civic leader knows that something is afoot that could drastically alter our course as a nation." It has an anchor in the "conservative movement" among college students, he said, who "know that this thing that has gone along for 30 years and has cost $400 billion under the phony name of liberalism...
...mild martyrdom they had obviously had in mind. "We called the local police," said one, "to be sure there were enough cells for us." Next day a crowd of 1,000 appeared at Holy Loch waving placards. But the Proteus was on station, and Dunoon welcomed it with a civic reception and a dance. Said Town Clerk Duncan Anderson: "You'd have to search for a long time round here to winkle out anyone who doesn't want Americans to come...
Keeper of the "record," and Pusey's Assistant for Civic Affairs, Charles P. Whitlock, listed several examples of what Pusey termed "the University's help and guidance in city development...
According to Rep. Mary Newman, chief ment of the sale, a spokesman for one e churches near the Common, a businessman from the Square, and a member one of the local civic groups (probably Cambridge Civic Association) will be ag the group. There will be no repreative from the University, though...