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...bipartisan Kissinger group, the White House hopes, will pound out a working consensus on Central American policy. But optimism is not rampant. Kis singer said that close up, the situation looked "far graver than most of us had expected." Democratic Representative Michael Barnes traveled with the commission. "I'm very depressed," he said, because events "seem headed almost in exorably toward a regional...
...climate of sorrow and guilt that engulfed most Americans, there was an opening for an accommodation between the races that might otherwise never have presented itself. Lyndon Johnson, looking even graver than he had appeared when he announced his abdication at week's beginning, called at week's end for an extraordinary joint session of Congress to hear "the President's recommendations for action-constructive action instead of destructive action-in this hour of national need." It is not enough, Johnson implied, to mourn Martin Luther King. His death demands expiation...
...miles southeast of Beirut, in Lebanon's Chouf mountains. Although the area had been the scene of fighting for ten months as Druze and Christian militiamen battled for control of the strategic region, this time the target was different and the implications for Lebanon's future far graver. The attack was the first salvo in a new challenge to President Amin Gemayel's fragile government...
...student at the time Jokingly dubbed ivy removal "one of the graver issues of our time." And a self-appointed leader of the Save the Ivy movement urged officials not to dash memories of Harvard like his own. "The first night I was wandering around the Yard quite lost, but I knew that I was at Harvard by the ivy on the walls," he wailed, to a jubilant crowd...
...protestations notwithstanding. Kirkpatrick, as a leading government official, has complete access to the public eye and ear whenever she or her press office wants it. The attempt by some California regents to punish the students who denounced Kirkpatrick, grossly impolite as they were, is a far graver threat to free expression. Were the ACE truly concerned about civil liberties, it would have stressed those dangers instead...