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Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Britain's Sad Plight | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

The cost of the five-month rebellion has been frightful: more than 1,000 killed on both sides, at least 27 of them white civilians; the halt of practically all economic activity in rich Kivu province; and heavy damage to Bukavu, the mercenaries' stronghold. Last week the Organization of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Cause for Optimism | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Sir: If you intended to set the cause of legalized abortion back, you could not have done better than that sentence: "Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying." What a frightful picture. All the male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1967 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Escalation of the Viet Nam war is almost always spoken of as an American prerogative, but Hanoi also regularly raises the ante. Aided by an increasing flow of fresh weaponry from Russia and Red China and desperate for a badly needed victory, the Communists last week continued to increase their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Escalation from Hanoi | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

In the 20th century, no man spoke up more strongly for the freedom of the church than Otto Dibelius. A stern, proud, blunt Prussian, Dibelius was one of the first German churchmen to protest Nazism, whose distorted views on Christianity he later termed "a frightful mixture of race, blood, soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: A Defender of the Church | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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