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...Taking their stand on statements made by the World Council Assemblies, Committees and officers of the World Council of Churches have on several occasions expressed their concern and regret when governments have taken unilateral military action against other governments. The officers of the World Council of Churches consider it therefore their duty to express their grave concern and regret concerning the action which the U.S.A. Government has felt it necessary to take with regard to Cuba, and fervently hope that every government concerned will exercise the greatest possible restraint in order to avoid a worsening of international tensions...
Brown, who watched Nixon on television, said: "Nixon is going to regret all his life that he made that speech...
...With regret, we review the Massachusetts campaign and find no reason to believe Ted Kennedy will outgrow his restrictive opportunism. A few "right votes" in the Senate will not justify the abuses he has already perpetrated. To believe that they will is, in effect, to accept Teddy's campaign as a legitimate exercise in democracy. We cannot, and thus it is with the severest pessimism that we now regard his ascendancy...
...Other Issue. Throughout his campaign, Judd has talked constantly of Cuba, denouncing the President bitterly as "a weaker person than we realized." Fraser replied in a fashion he must now regret, attacking Judd's discussion of Cuba as "a calculated and cynical effort to divert attention from the domestic issue of this campaign...
...leaders to make evenhanded appeals for peace to both top powers; Pope John XXIII supplicated "all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind." But the statement issued by the World Council of Churches from Geneva was more specifically critical of the U.S., expressing "grave concern and regret" over the decision to quarantine Cuba. One of the signers was Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the council's central committee and president of the Lutheran Church in America...