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...bitterly resent President Nixon's taking it upon himself to publicly and abjectly apologize to President Pompidou [March 16]. I believe that what he said did not represent the feelings of a majority of the people of this country...
...Parishes" will be formed out of several existing member congregations, chosen not necessarily from the same neighborhood but specifically to give them a social and racial mix. (Planners are already wary of reactions from congregations who may resent their loss of independence.) Above the parishes will rise a hierarchical pyramid: districts, regions (both presided over by bishops) and finally a powerful national church government: a biennial national assembly and a standing general council headed by a presiding bishop. Partly to appease the growing separatist feeling in the three black churches participating in the Consultation, the plan requires that the first...
Indians smolder when the white operators of trading posts sell their Indian-crafted goods to tourists at 400% markups. They resent the white sportsmen who gun down caribou from airplanes, while their own hunting for lifesaving game is restricted by white laws. They become furious at the white shopkeepers' use of Indian religious symbols and bad portraits of Indian chiefs. Don Wilkerson, the Cherokee-Creek director of the Phoenix Indian Center, claims that a bar in Scottsdale, Ariz., has a huge picture of a great Indian chief on its roof as an advertising gimmick. "The Jewish people would not permit...
Train's appointment had been expected by many Administration watchers. They detected a growing coolness between Train and his boss, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, who was said to resent reports that Train was actually running the department. Chairman Train's fellow members will be Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 40, vice chancellor for research and graduate affairs at the University of California (Santa Barbara), and Robert Cahn, 52, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who has specialized in conservation stories. All three nominees must be approved by the Senate, but little opposition is likely...
Finally, as members of the Harvard community we resent the Committee's order prohibiting the suspended and separated students from appearing in the University community. We believe this prohibition severely limits our rights to free association and our freedom of entry into political dialogue. It is essential to the reputation of the University that its actions can never be construed to limit the free exchange of ideas, however antithetical those ideas may be to its collective political philosophy...