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...yuletide spirit had taken over. At midweek L.B.J. had to handle a highly touchy situation: nine Democratic Governors arrived to tell him what was wrong with him. Lyndon Johnson kept his Christmas cool throughout. He knew that he was dealing with an embryo rebellion that, unless handled well, could imperil his own future as well as that of his party...
...rebellion. We were able to rationalize our moral problems, which were real and recognized, because the political and economic problems were greater and more urgent." Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national interest to Moslem Pakistan that Kashmir (80% Moslem itself) be taken into the fold of political Islam...
...that empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients practicing racial discrimination - cut into the social texture of U.S. academic life? Commissioner of Education Fran cis Keppel last week provided a measurement by ruling that any fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro on racial grounds could imperil the many millions of dollars that a university might be getting from the Government...
...today, a certain xenophobia, perhaps inspired by two world wars, still lingers, as does the reluctance to take any step that might "let down the Commonwealth." Moreover, the party's aging unionists, haunted by memories of Depression unemployment, oppose lowering tariffs against Continental merchandise, which, they fear, would imperil the jobs of British workers...
...nation we hold immense power," statement continued. "To permit it to used in reckless and barbarous ways in imperil the entire basis of American leadership." The statement demanded of the Johnson administration "make arrest attempt to obtain a negotiated peace...