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...increasing political activism and introspection is like the ripples of a stone thrown into a stream. But if that stone is big enough to redirect the stream's current, changes beyond the fighting and dying in Vietnam will take place...
Crew's Ransom. Nor did Kennedy win any points for statesmanship when he carped that the Administration's delay over settling on a peace-negotiation site was "unforgivable." Bobby repeated the simplistic notion that an end to the war would overnight redirect billions from military expenditures into urban programs...
...Kennedy had announced that he was reexamining his own inclination to run but before he proclaimed his candidacy, he and Sorensen visited Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Kennedy named his price for political peace. Insisting that Johnson would have to declare his decision not merely to reevaluate but also to "redirect" the commitment to Viet Nam, he suggested that the President should then appoint a commission for the purpose of proposing a new policy. Kennedy's suggested members for the group included himself and such men as Yale President Kingman Brewster, former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer, former Deputy Secretary...
...moral values, offer no debatable alternatives. By contrast with the rebels of every previous generation in the U.S.-from the "wobblies" of 50 years ago (see BOOKS) to the New Left activists of the early '60s-the hippies have no desire to control the machinery of society or redirect it toward new goals. They have no urge to reform the world, if only because its values seem irrelevant to them...
...meet with each other and the city to find solutions and decrease unrest. The city in turn will have to increase its efforts to satisfy the needs of the Negro community, probably beginning with a review of police practices. There will be an attempt on both sides to redirect interest towards the substantive issues, and a growing interest among Negroes in developing the community as white store owners are residents move out, as many have already indicated they will. Finally, new leaders will win recognition, men like the Rev. James Breeden executive director of the Commission on Church and Race...