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...Eastern version of the "domino theory" that is so derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia and Africa, will take their cue," she wrote. "If we fail to act to confirm the principle of freedom of navigation, every person in every one of these countries will take note...
Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., former nun, president of Webster College. Articulate and courageous innovator, perceptive teacher, wise counselor in the highest national cabinets, co-searcher in the cause of open-ended truth, you confirm the future of liberal learning...
...neighborhood. Thus, by some measures, the area shows considerable stability; the 1960 census reveals that nearly 50 percent of the population had moved into the area before 1953 and 19 percent had arrived before 1939. And the life-long residents who show up at protest meeting after protest meeting confirm the statistics. Yet, the area is not totally immobile either. The census figures also show that fully 28 per cent of the residents who, in 1960, lived in the projected path had moved there only during the previous two years. Informal city figures between 1965 and 1967 show that about...
Your story of May 16 concerning a Harvard physician's eye-witness report of the shocking civilian casualties in Vietnam helped to confirm statistics which many of us have known for some time. By conservative reckoning, we can estimate that 750 thousand civilians have been killed and 1.5 million wounded (probably half of them children) through the end of 1966. And this does not include the thousands afflicted by malnutrition and often starvation, due to normally bad conditions which have been immeasurably worsened by scorched-earth warfare...
Playing John Alden. "It would be a disaster to the Republican Party," Barry Goldwater has said of the Wallace candidacy. Opinion polls confirm this judgment. Thus when Michigan's George Romney ventured South last week, he made Wallace rather than the national Democrats his principal target. A third party bid, said Romney, would be a "tragedy...