Word: concernedly
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Despite their concern with the inadequacy of the basic federal subsidy, black leaders are cautiously optimistic about the Nixon proposal. Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, said that the proposal represents "a major change about problems of the poor and offers hope for the future." Roy Wilkins, head of the N.A.A.C.P., called the concept a "step in the right direction." Their optimism, in fact, was not too far removed from the views of the critics. Even the more outspoken criticism of the program's details seemed not so much calculated to reject the scheme...
...Egyptian and Syrian jets recently made their first brief attacks on Israeli military positions, prompting some concern among the military planners in Tel Aviv. What if the four rebuilt Arab air forces were to strike simultaneously? With the Arab armies still confined behind such antitank obstacles as the Suez Canal and the Jordan River, and the Palestinian guerrilla drive slowed by, bombing and tight border patrols, air strikes have become virtually the only way for the Arabs to attempt serious blows at Israel. Says Jordan's King Hussein: "We can no longer allow the enemy a free hand...
Even the War Resisters League and the Workshop in Nonviolence have joined the cause by devoting the August issue of their magazine, WIN, to ecological manifestos. One reason for youthful concern with environmental damage is simple: the young will have to live with it. "If these problems are not resolved in ten years," frets David Sachs, 24, president of the Stanford University Conservation Group, "we will wipe ourselves out in 30 years." Not quite-but Sachs has a point. Says Biologist Barry Commoner, chairman of the St. Louis Committee for Environmental Information: "We don't really know what...
...have not lost my confidence and faith in Ted Kennedy. His leadership of such groups as the young, the black and the oppressed has earned my full endorsement far beyond that of any other major political figure. His opposition to the Viet Nam war and the ABM system, his concern about the Nigerian-Biafran struggle and the Arab-Israeli conflict, his remarkable record in the Senate and his service as Majority Whip have not been obliterated from my mind...
Many of those who disagreed with him during last spring's crisis recognized that he was fighting for a certain conception of the University, for scholarly values he had practiced all his life, and they shared his concern for objectivity, intellectual honesty, a University unsullied by the outside world, even if they did not share his views about how to preserve (or restore) this vision. He himself always had the generosity to acknowledge that men who were on opposite sides over some issues could nevertheless have common aims, serve the same values, and practice mutual respect...