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...have succeeded. His inability to convince either Congress or the nation of the need for a tax increase is one example. When the Detroit riots erupted last summer, Johnson had a splendid opportunity to rally the nation. Instead, he took a safe, legalistic and patently political approach, delaying the dispatch of federal troops until Michigan's Governor George Romney, a potential rival in 1968, was ready to admit that he had lost control of the situation. Johnson's follow-up actions were no more impressive. "Here we've had a whole summer of riots," said former White House Aide Richard...
...That wasn't the only gun jumped by Teamsters. Aware of the financial success of one of the interim papers during the last strike, three Teamster Union members helped form ahead of time a corporation designed to put out a paper once there was a shutdown. The Daily Dispatch was the result. Other Teamsters were also distributing two more interim papers, the Daily Press, which calls itself "the paper you've waited for since 1964," and the Daily Express, which boasts that it is "Michigan's largest daily newspaper." There is at least a smattering of truth...
...Oliver S. Moore III, 25, concentrated on economics in his study of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1964, and then worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He was our stringer (part-time correspondent) in Charlottesville, Va., before he moved to New York, where he now is reporting for Business...
...second instalment portrayed Harriet Tubman, the tiny but herculean conductor of the Underground Railroad, who never lost a passenger. Included was her gunboat raid into Confederate territory, making her, according to an official dispatch, "the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces...
...fourth paragraph of a long Associated Press dispatch on the weekend's events, it was learned: "The demonstration had the official blessing of the North Vietnamese government...