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Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...judges shredded Richberg's bylaws, which they labeled "transparently meretricious." As for the club's mem bers, they said, "in the interest of fellowship they have held no meetings; in pursuit of culinary excellence, their food is the same as in its pre-club days; and in their concern for efficiency, they have turned over all profits and operations to one man." Of that man, the judges concluded: "Richberg wants us to believe that he was cuisine-conscious but not pigment-minded...
...order to make prayer services more intelligible. Ecumenically, the council took a major step forward by issuing, for the first time, an open invitation to the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council. Although theologians recognize the practical problems that would be involved if Catholics should become mem bers of the council, churchmen active in Christian-unity proposals have long considered the prospect inevitable. Hardly an eyebrow was raised when Roman Catholic observers at Uppsala took Communion, as if it were a matter of course, at a Swedish Lutheran High Mass...
...river front, the five-man military court took only an hour and a half to complete the trial. Its verdict: Guilty of treason, plotting and falsely espousing the cause of peace in accordance with Communist policy. With that, South Viet Nam last week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They were tried in absentia; all of them had slipped away during...
...shock to begin acting on racial problems, the black students provided it a week after King's death. Harvard held a service in Memorial Church on the second day back from Spring recess, but the black students did not attend--they conducted their own service on the steps of Mem Church...