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...Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were probably "too forceful" in their defense against invading mobs. Yet Panama, as some of the diplomats conceded privately, was hardly a "victim of U.S. aggression," had no legitimate reason to claim sanctions under the Rio inter-American defense treaty...
Mencken had never met the King family of Atlanta. King's maternal grandfather, the Rev. A. D. Williams, was one of Georgia's first N.A.A.C.P. leaders, helped organize a boycott against an Atlanta newspaper that had disparaged Negro voters. His preacher father was in the forefront of civil rights battles aimed at securing equal salaries for Negro teachers and the abolition of Jim Crow elevators in the Atlanta courthouse...
...Harvard was not an important aspect of political reality to him," the friend continued. "He knew that if he over-emphasized Harvard, it would get him in wrong with the general electorate. he did not put Harvard in the forefront...
...appropriate that Harvard students should be in the vanguard of the nation-wide effort to clarify the issue of college youth's right in a premarital sexual life as it is that they should be in the forefront of the struggle for civil rights and peace. Moreover, they should be receiving help and support from the college administration and faculty around such issues as, e.g., distinguishing between compulsive, anxiety-ridden sexually and healthy erotic love; facing and alleviating the internal as well as external in the way of a responsible expression of tender and sensual impulses; learning to follow...
Creeping Warning. Last week, with Italy's Communists eagerly in the forefront, critics asked why the private electric company that constructed the dam before its nationalization a few months ago did not build a retaining wall to hold back Mount Toe. Moreover, loose earth had been creeping down the mountainside for two weeks prior to the disaster; the dam's supervisors had lowered the reservoir level 21 ft. and evacuated some smaller villages above the reservoir. But even though it lay directly in the dam's path, Longarone was not evacuated...