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Soft Voice. Johnson unmistakably supported the Israeli cause, although he shrewdly avoided crowing over the Soviet-Arab defeat. Specifically, he put the American imprimatur on Israel's premises for peace: Arab recognition of Israeli statehood, an end to the state of belligerence that has existed since 1948, free use of Suez and the Strait of Tiran, direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Yet he also skirted the role of Israeli advocate. "Certainly," he said, "[Israeli] troops must be withdrawn...
...President will hold this week in Guam will probably be a re-run of the ones he attended in Honolulu and Manila. American efforts to help South Vietnam along the road to peace, prosperity, and democracy will be stressed. The new South Vietnamese constitution may receive the Johnson imprimatur. Rural pacification and the economic reconstruction of the countryside will be given top billing. In other words, a few touches will be added to one of the President's favorite pictures--that of a determined and benevolent U.S. trying to rescue a backward, peace-loving people from the clutches...
...Kennedy has erred in refusing to confront the manuscript until now. She will have to read the book and undoubtedly withhold her approval. But she should never have given the impression that the approval of her late husband's friends was tantamount to a family imprimatur. Look Magazine, which will serialize the book in January, has reportedly started its presses rolling -- and if the injunction Mrs. Kennedy seeks is granted, it stands to lose a great deal of money. The bitterness and rumors this controversy has engendered could have easily been avoided if the family had taken the direct interest...
...skyscraper complex, a scant 20 minutes by car from the Champs-Élysées, six minutes by rooftop helicopter from Orly and second only to the Pentagon in floor space (3,024,000 sq. ft.), will begin in 1968, provided the Paris Municipal Sites Commission bestows its imprimatur on the building, as expected, by Christmas...
...Abolition of all prior censorship of books (by withholding the imprimatur), and all outmoded ecclesiastical penalties, such as automatic excommunication without prior hearing for violation of the seal of confession...