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...after four summers of holocausts in the nation's largest cities, concern over the Negro's welfare has been largely replaced by consternation at the prospect of anarchy. Nothing more dramatically underscored this shift than the total silence that greeted Johnson's State of the Union plea for several "vital" civil rights laws covering fair jury trials, enforcement of equal-employment opportunity and open housing. By contrast, he was applauded a dozen times when he spoke of curbing crime...
Arraigned in the East Cambridge District Court last Saturday, Foote entered a plea of "not guilty." His case will be heard again on February...
...outwardly calm DeGuglielmo then appeared before the council. He read a prepared statement detailing the projects of his administration, and said that, if he was to be removed, he supported a nation-wide search for his successor. His only plea was that the council--instead of appointing an interim manager--let him remain in office until the new manager was found...
...meeting hall outside Santiago. "Mr. Chairman," he said softly, "I demand the right to answer some personal attacks waged against me." With that, Chile's embattled President Eduardo Frei turned to the 530 members of his Christian Democratic Party's national committee and launched into a plea for his very political life...
...Vietnam." The wording here is deliberately ambiguous. Our own position is that there is little to negotiate except immediate American withdrawal and perhaps reparations to the Vietnamese people. We never expected Professor Reischauer to espouse this particular interpretation, but we did believe that he was sincere in his plea for some kind of negotiated settlement. Thus we find it difficult to understand how he could sign his name to a lengthy statement on Vietnam that, as printed in the New York Times, does not once mention negotiations. Here in Cambridge he declares that an early negotiated settlement must...