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Clergymen from the Boston area who say they are "troubled, concerned, and confused" about the war in Vietnam have formed an ad hoc committee to provide background information to clergymen on the war in Vietnam. The committee hopes to serve as a stimulus for action to help...
...said that although the ad hoc committee would be an affiliate of the National Emergency Clergy Committee, its members would reserve the right to "speak in their own way in their own community." Both Mumma and Fray emphasized the fact that each member of the committee speaks only for himself, not for the organization or faith to which he belongs...
...fight this kind of war for an extended period of time. To them, apparently, our escalation would represent an unsustainable last-ditch effort. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who defeated the French at Dienbienphu, published an article two weeks ago in the magazine of the North Vietnamese Communist Party, Hoc Tap, in which he emphasized that an enlarged commitment to South Vietnam would prevent the United States from meeting the obligations of its other alliances. Should the Communists cause trouble elsewhere, he reasons, we would be caught in an inescapable bind. The North Vietnamese do not believe that we would allow...
...real action is elsewhere, in the seething ghettoes beyond legislation. It would be a shame, however, if no one bothered to leave the trenches long enough to argue with the New Right. Maybe, just maybe, this curious agreement about "individual dignity" could be expanded into a little, ad hoc Consensus...
...which had just committed $15.6 million for two seasons of college ball, was "not terribly interested." The virtual elimination of the competition, however, did not necessarily make it a buyers' market for CBS. For one thing, the National Football League could peddle television rights to an ad hoc sports network on a station by station basis (as has been done frequently for golf tournaments). For another, if NBC and ABC were offering football programming, CBS could hardly afford...