Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, the long-quiescent dove-hawk debate broke out anew. A dozen religious leaders wrote to Lyndon Johnson to express their regret that he is sanctioning the bombing of targets "in or near residential sections of Hanoi, even if many civilians die." Democratic Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Vance Hartke of Indiana called on Johnson to stop the bombing unilaterally. On the other hand, South Carolina's Congressman Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, urged the U.S. to "flatten Hanoi if necessary" and "to hell with world opinion." Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell...
...Vietnamese police station. Brother-in-Law Loan quickly had him brought to his office to sleep it off, and next morning chewed the mayor out in no uncertain terms. But there were also Vietnamese sensitivities to be considered. U.S. Ambassador Hen ry Cabot Lodge expressed Washington's "regret" at the incident, and General Loan announced that henceforth American MPs would confine their arrests to U.S. personnel...
...Angeles oil millionaire, demanded the firing of all faculty members who took part in the strike-chiefly teaching assistants. But he drew only three votes. The regents instead ruled that teachers would be fired in future if they failed to "meet their assigned duties." They also voted to "regret the necessity" for the use of police but to "reject the view that a campus should be a haven for unlawful conduct...
Until that time, however certain one is that a vast crime is in progress, the duties of etiquette bind one to silence or at most quiet, unobtrusive suggestions that perhaps one's chosen leaders ought to alter their course a tiny bit. Therefore I regret the discourteousy of a demonstration I took part in and apolozige to Secretary McNamara. MERRILL KAITZ...
...Executive Board of the Harvard CRIMSON announced yesterday with regret the retirement of its faithful press. Press, born in 1907, has served the CRIMSON for the last decade, daily printing its pages. No gold watch was presented upon retirement. Press will leave soon and take up lighter work elsewhere. To replace him, the board has hired a wizz-press from the Cape Codder, where he has worked for the last ten years. His inauguration issue appears today...