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Despite the Department's rhetoric about increasing contracts with Peking, opposition to Red China's admission adds strength to the convictions of the Red Chinese leaders that this country is irrevocably bent on destroying the Chinese People's Republic. Modifying the present position would not entirely dispel these beliefs, but some China experts argue that a few more active gestures toward the communists may yet help the moderates who are getting the worst of it in China's current upheaval. And the modification would certainly be consistent with Secretary Rusk's hope that the West will "break through the walls...
...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...
...Catholic church... Don't walk by, you're not good enough." There seemed to be an ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases, did the marchers' response dispel initial impressions. The quiet, "let's be reasonable, "can't we talk about this" approach was simply alien and frustrating...
Inherent Compulsion. To dispel that coercive atmosphere, "adequate protective devices" must be employed. The Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination is so fundamental to U.S. justice, said Warren, and an adequate reminder of the privilege can be so simply delivered to suspects, that there is no excuse for failing to give it. Congress and the individual states, he stressed, should be encouraged to "continue their laudable search for increasingly effective ways of protecting the rights of the individual while promoting efficient enforcement of our criminal laws." As the search goes on, though, the right to silence and the opportunity to exercise...
Better with Rats. All of these teachers, and the others on the cover, have some common qualities that tend to dispel what Cornell's Perkins calls the "marvelous smoke screen" teachers have thrown up to convey the notion that "what they are doing is an occult mystery." All have demonstrated sound scholarship through publication. All are immersed in a conviction that their scholarship has an irresistible relevance to life, and feel compelled to convey that relevance. And all believe that in sights, ideas, ways of thinking, methods of inquiry, are far more important to implant in young minds than...