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...very sorry," she told the Labor Party delegates, "that we are engaged in an argument which may well grow bitter." Indeed it may. If Egypt is able to summon an emergency Security Council meeting, the U.S. could be faced with an uncomfortable dilemma. As Israel's protector and last remaining major friend, the U.S. would probably veto any censure of Israel that called for a return of all captured territory. Yet this would in effect mean vetoing a policy similar to the "insubstantial changes" position of Secretary of State William Rogers...
...otherwise placid City Council meeting last night dealing primarily with the Cambridge housing problem, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci got another chance to play his favorite role of people's protector with the customary gusto...
...unreality of the myth of academic community becomes more clear in the structure of its protector, the CRR. While the CRR judged only students, nevertheless students were allowed only one-third of the votes on the Committee. Nor did they have any say in the determination of this ratio. Finally, the Committee was set up to function, and has functioned, even if it had no student representation at all. So the recent referenda of all the Houses, in which the students rejected the CRR's election procedures and refused to send representatives to it, will not prevent the CRR from...
...really brought me out of myself for the first time in my life," she says. Corey's classes got her stage roles in Moon for the Misbegotten, and An Enemy of the People. Equally important, her cousin David Bennett, a fellow Corey student, appointed himself her unofficial protector and promoter. He turned up at her apartment early in the morning to roust her out for auditions. "David, David," she would say, "I don't wanna go, David, I'm fat and ugly, David, and I don't even want to be an actress." David refused...
...United States is 18,000 miles away. It is probable that we are unable to win the war, and that the Lao generals will wish that they had followed the lead of the Pathet Lao's Souphanouvong, and chosen a protector closer to home, because defending an "outpost" 18,000 miles distant does not have the immediacy of defending one just across your borders...