Word: musts
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...year ago (May 18, 1968), the American Jewish Congress urged that military chaplains be replaced with civilian religious counselors receiving no pay from the Government and possessing no military rank. The resolution adopted by the organization's convention, the first national organization to do so, stated that "religion must always remain the guardian of the nation's conscience and the moral judge of its actions. It cannot fulfill that sacred responsibility if it is at the same time the handmaiden of Government." It also noted that "many chaplains believe that they cannot in conscience support the war their...
Straw-Man Issue. If his career-officer listeners should find their commitment to meet U.S. world responsibilities "derided as a form of militarism," said Nixon, they must "recognize that strawman issue for what it is." Nixon then set up his own straw men, "the skeptics and the isolationists." When the first explorers set out from Europe toward the New World, he said disdainfully, "these men would have weighed the risks, and they would have stayed behind." When pioneers set out from the East Coast colonies into the interior, "these men would have counted the costs, and they would have stayed...
...unilateral reduction of our arms in order to demonstrate our good faith." That, he said, is an "isolationist" view. The U.S., he insisted, cannot become "a dropout in assuming the responsibility for defending peace and freedom in the world." Neither, he added, can the U.S. go it alone. "We must revitalize our alliances, not abandon them," he declared. "We must rule out unilateral disarmament, because in the real world it won't work...
...getting involved, Ditto is molding powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...
...Early last January, the Committee on the University and the City, chaired by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, released some of its preliminary conclusions about the effect Harvard inevitably has on the town around it and the role Harvard must play in Cambridge affairs. In April, the Faculty approved the report's principles. Following are excerpts from the Wilson committee's recommendations...