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...particularly regret the interruption of the demonstration held on the steps of Memorial Church Friday afternoon. I was not in the building at the time, and our sexton, not knowing that the rally had been authorized, acted in accordance with general instructions...
...previous U.S.-Belgian Stanleyville massacre was not an adequate paratroop exercise, consider the fate of the defenseless and dedicated Peace Corps workers, Missionaries, U.S.-A.I.D. personnel, and teachers that are overseas. As much as we appreciate their contributions and unselfish dedication to their work, we regret to say the State Department and C.I.A. are constantly undoing and abusing their contributions to Africa...
...republic (TIME, Jan. 22). Some weeks ago, it now appears, Frank Carlucci, U.S. consul in Zanzibar, was talking by telephone with Robert Gordon, U.S. embassy counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that gave him power on Jan. 12, 1964. Carlucci explained that celebrations of the coup had been postponed because of Ramadan...
Forces Foreseen. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an intensely human hero. He was easily moved to rage or tears; he delighted in mischief and rushed headlong into many an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and dedi cation to duty. When he became Prime Minister at the nadir of his nation's fortunes in 1940, he was 65-older than any other Allied or enemy leader. He had held more Cabinet posts than any other Briton in history; he had seen more...
...takes his son on "palship walks." But much of the diminishing tension results from parental intent as well as parental abdication. Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons finds many young parents "committed to a policy of training serious independence in youth," to which children respond with seriousness-and an occasional wistful regret. "I don't get authority at home," sighs Dana Nye, 17, a student at Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles. "We're just a bunch of people who go about our business and live under one roof. One of these days I'd like...