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...have every reason to want to forget June 5th. Yet throughout the Arab world last week, alternate cries of vengeance and mourning echoed from a million transistor radios and a dozen leather-lunged Arab prime ministers and presidents on the first anniversary of the Six-Day War with Israel. Heedless of the lessons of that swift, disastrous encounter, Arab speakers called in thundering phrases for a renewal of the war, foreshadowing further strife in the Middle East. As a fighting slogan the Arab nations have adopted "Victory or Martyrdom," and in a nationwide speech, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declared...
...Heedless of God or Evil, pen, write...
...Hungarian uprising, the Berlin Wall. While they are theoretically opposed to any dictatorship they endlessly make allowances for Communist regimes; they feel outraged by U.S. leaders while either apologizing for or extolling Castro and Mao, and of course they want instant, unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, heedless of the consequences. "We refuse to be anti-Communist," declared Lynd and Hayden in a statement written for Studies on the Left, since the term is used "to justify a foreign policy that is no more sophisticated than rape...
McCormack remains a dedicated spokesman for his party's legislative program; he deserves great credit for the mammoth outpouring of Great Society legislation in the 89th Congress. Since the last session, however, he has grown noticeably more emaciated, irascible and heedless of the mood of Congress. After McCormack's defeat on the floor vote that took away Powell's seat, California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, a leader of the movement to discipline the Harlem Representative, approached McCormack to explain his action. The Speaker turned away with a disgusted "humph...
...paper Nhan Dan. "Bad habits such as bureaucracy, commandism and violation of mass rights still exist to a somewhat serious degree," he complained. Among the bad habits were "cases of dubious financial situations, corruption, abuses, incorrect borrowing and unrestricted eating and drinking." By commandism, Le Due Tho meant orders heedless of local needs and wishes, and simple snobbery: "A number of leaders in factories and at construction sites do not associate with workers and labor cells...