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Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
Increased Arab aggressiveness is ev ident along the Suez Canal, where Is rael last month called in its air force to silence Egyptian artillery. Last week Egypt took the initiative in the air. A flight of 30 fighter-bombers, escorted by MIG interceptors, attacked Israeli positions in occupied Sinai, killing one soldier and wounding six. The raid lasted only four minutes, giving Israeli jets no time to scramble to the challenge. Next day the Israeli air force plastered Egyptian positions along the canal for 45 minutes; for good measure, Israeli planes also raided Jordan...
...incident was the final provocation. Unharmed in the attack but fighting mad, he stormed into the office of Franco's right-hand man, Vice Pres ident Luis Carrero Blanco, and demanded that the government crack down. If it did not, he blustered, the military would take matters into its own hands...
...culture as well as wealth, and last October it put its most prestigious culture under one $13 million roof: the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center.* The big glass and concrete structure on Peachtree Street was hailed as the only one of the nation's arts centers to house res ident companies in repertory theater, opera, ballet and symphony - as well as an art museum, and an art library and school...
...threatens it. He lived in the whole country and looked at it all. And he couldn't see a way to unite it. Maybe he wasn't the best President we might have had. But we sure as hell aren't the best people a Pres ident has ever...